rat house

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rat house (plural rat houses)

  1. (Australia, slang) A mental hospital.
    • 1998, Keith B. Saunders, Myall Road, page 91:
      I've had enough, mate. A bloody man is starting to get the Joe Blakes and the dry retches and if a man keeps this up I'm sure to finish in the rat house with the DTs at this rate.

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