animal house

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English

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Etymology

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The term pre-dates the 1978 film Animal House.

Noun

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animal house (plural animal houses)

  1. (US, slang) A rowdy frat house.
    • 2003, Atlanta (volume 43, number 8, page 349)
      The fraternity was expelled from campus three years ago because a road trip, one of the time-honored pranks of an animal house, went terribly wrong.

References

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  • Tony Thorne (2014) “animal house”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury
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