funhouse

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English

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"Lost City", a large travelling funhouse that unpacks from two articulated trailers.
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Etymology

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From fun +‎ house.

Noun

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funhouse (plural funhouses)

  1. (originally US) A structure, usually at a circus or amusement park, enclosing several interactive attractions such as distorting mirrors, ramps, slides, stairs, rotating barrel slides, etc., that usually do not involve performers.
    • 2003, Cory Doctorow, chapter 6, in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom[1]:
      “It’s not good stewardship. If the guests wanted to walk through a funhouse with guys jumping out of the shadows saying ‘booga-booga,’ they’d go to one of the Halloween Houses in their hometowns. The Mansion’s better than that. I can’t be a part of this plan.”

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