(UK, slang, obsolete, historical, mostly plural) Any of the buildings comprising the Kensington Museum and School of Art.
(UK, slang, obsolete, historical, mostly plural) Any of the buildings comprising the Kensington Museum and School of Art.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(UK) Buildings, especially domestic housing.
(historical) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.
(UK) The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).
An older derogatory slang term for a psychiatric hospital or mental asylum, synonymous with 'booby-hatch'. The term reflects the stigmatising language historically used around mental health treatment, framing institutions as places where foolish or 'booby' people were locked away. While the phrase is dated, it still surfaces in vintage writing, old films, and occasionally in retro-flavoured humour, and understanding it requires acknowledging its place in the history of ableist slang.