funny farm en · NOUN
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(slang) An insane asylum.
Paddy the Duke was right. I had one more "tour of duty" to put in at the funny farm. They turned me loose a few days after he left, sometime in the winter months of 1959, but in a little more than a year's time I would be back at Avalon Valley; and I would be a very sick man.
1968, Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes, page 117:
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