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booby hatch

Actually misspelled.

Boobie hatch is an ancient term for small hatch covers intended to keep a species of seabird called a Boobie from entering a ship through portholes and other smaller ventilation opening.

The usage to mean insane asylum is probably related to events happening when things enter through a boobie hatch. Either its drunken sailor activity (urination, etc) or a very messy situation involving an excited seabird thrashing around madly in a confined space with a bunch of sailors.
Someone left a (boobie) booby hatch open when we docked. A boobie crawled in and then all hell broke loose after if the bird landed on the Captain's bowl of soup and shat in it. It was all arms and legs thrashing about for 10-15 minutes. And someone lost an eye to its beak before cook crushed the boobie against a bulkhead with a skillet. Yes a regular mad house all because of an unsecured (boobie) booby hatch.
booby hatch by Captain Cooke February 9, 2010

Booby Hatch

Any one of several special bras with cup openings, but especially nursing or open point bras.
Coach had a real mental obsession with his mom and ended up throwing himself in the booby hatch.

My mother taught me how to be a real subtle lady. She used to flash all the guys when she purposely bent over with an open booby hatch under a loose shirt. The other women never knew.

She always used to say never fall asleep with an open booby hatch or you might wake with a common sea bird perched on a nipple...that why they called them boobies.
Booby Hatch by CoolHarborSheila February 9, 2010

Booby Hatch

When you are of ample bosom and decide to use the cleavagey warmth to hatch chicken eggs into booby-incubated chicks.
Hey, I see you're selling chicks - do you use an incubator?

Nope, I use the Booby Hatch method!
Booby Hatch by Misterchrister February 4, 2021

boobyhatch 

hes seeing crazy pigs send him to the boobyhatch.
boobyhatch by clara December 23, 2004

flophouse 

Any house/apartment/frat house/trailer/etc. which is used for individuals to crash (sleep, chill, hang out, lurk, etc.) for a period of time. In order to "crash", one must not actually live there (e.g. have their name on the lease, own said flophouse, etc.). Flophouses are typically used by college students, drug addicts, transients, vagrants, or other unsavory characters.

A flophouse may also be the home owned by the parents of a college student, who after being away at college, wishes to live as if he/she is still at college (e.g. staying out all night, returning just to crash at mom and dad's house, then leaving again), rather than conforming to the pre-college rules.
Example #1
Dude: (Talking to someone passed out face first on the floor of his college apartment) Hey man, who the hell are you? What do you think this is, a flophouse??

Bro: Sorry dude, I must have passed out for a minute.

Example #2
Mom: Where have you BEEN for the last three days? You come home just to sleep?? What do you think this is, a flophouse??!!

Son: What's your problem? I'm an adult now!
flophouse by J3553 November 21, 2007
Word of the Day on July 27, 2026

Hate Sink 

A person you hate intensely not because they deserve such hatred but because they serve as a focus for your general hatred. A healthy way to dispense with excess animosity.
Jake's not really that big an asshole. He just serves as my hate sink.
Word of the Day on July 26, 2026