Australian slang for a psychiatric hospital or mental institution. A blunt, derogatory term that reflects older stigmatising attitudes toward mental illness. Now considered offensive and outdated in contemporary usage, but still appears in historical texts and older Australian vernacular.
His mates joked that he had finally lost the plot and was headed for the rat house.
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(AU, slang) A mental hospital.
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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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