a psychiatric hospital; an institution providing care to mentally ill people; also spelled less commonly as looney bin and luny bin
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- First know uses: From stories by the English author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975): 1) From Mike: A Public School Story (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1909) —as reprinted in 1919 by Adam & Charles Black, London:1919 2) From Doing Clarence a Bit of Good 1, a short story first published in The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly (London: George Newnes, Ltd.) of May 1913:
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