booby hatch

• Terme d'argot vieilli et offensant pour désigner un hôpital psychiatrique ou une institution pour malades mentaux. L'expression est péjorative et n'est plus employée dans un contexte poli ou professionnel.

An outdated and offensive slang term for a psychiatric hospital or mental institution. The phrase is considered derogatory and is no longer used in polite or professional contexts.

1. Psychiatric hospital (slang)C1slangamerican

   An informal and often derogatory term for a mental hospital or psychiatric institution.

   hôpital psychiatrique (familier, péjoratif)

   • After his breakdown, they sent him to the booby hatch.
   • The movie is set in a creepy old booby hatch.
   • He joked that his office felt like a booby hatch.