D defs.my
Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Madhouse

/măd'-housˌ/ · Mad·house · IPA /ˈmædˌhaʊs/
01 n. An house or institution where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam; -- usually used in a deprecatory sense.
  1. 1.
    An house or institution where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam; -- usually used in a deprecatory sense.
  2. 2.
    A chaotic, raucus or highly disordered situation.(fig.)