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What (who) is bughouse - definition
bughouse
¦ noun N. Amer. informal a psychiatric hospital.
Bughouse (band)
AUSTRALIAN MUSICAL GROUP
Draft:Bughouse (Australian band)
Bughouse were an independent band from Sydney, who toured the East Coast of Australia from 1989–1994.
Bughouse chess
CHESS VARIANT PLAYED ON TWO CHESSBOARDS BY FOUR PLAYERS IN TEAMS OF TWO
Tandem Chess; Bughouse Chess; Bug House; Exchange chess; Exchange Chess; Transfer Chess; Double Bughouse; Cross chess (Bughouse chess); Swap Chess
Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, cross chess, swap chess or simply bughouse, bugsy, or bug) is a popular chess variant played on two chessboards by four players in teams of two.Other less common names for bughouse include Team chess, Hungarian chess, Swedish chess, New England Double bughouse, Pass-On chess, Tandem Put-Back, Double Speed, Double chess, Double Five, Simultaneous chess, Double bug or Double bughouse (von Zimmerman (2006), front; Manson and Hoover (1992), p.
Examples of use of bughouse
1. CHICAGO –– In its heyday, Chicago‘s Bughouse Square was a soapbox venue for defense lawyer Clarence Darrow, anarchist labor organizer Lucy Parsons and her controversial lover, physician Ben Reitman.
2. More accustomed to opposition on moral or religious grounds, she got a taste of the heckling for which Bughouse Square was notorious.
3. The prize, a two–foot–tall, bright–green plastic pickle, was named for a group of Bughouse regulars associated with the Dill Pickle Club, a nearby cabaret and speakeasy popular with writers, radicals, gangsters and socialites in the 1'20s.
4. From the 18'0s to the 1'60s, Bughouse Square –– otherwise known as Washington Square Park –– was a freewheeling spot where libertarians, anarchists, preachers, beat poets, antiwar activists and anyone with an ax to grind held forth on soapboxes for tourists and fellow raconteurs.