"laughing academy" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1971 Oct. 11, Stefan Kanfer, \"Cinema: Senescent Saint\" (film review of Kotch), Time (retrieved 7 June 2014)",
          "text": "Tell me, do you think your old man has slipped his trolley—that he belongs in a laughing academy?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981 Nov. 23, John Leonard, \"Books Of The Times\" (review of The Letters of Nunnally Johnson), New York Times (retrieved 7 June 2014)",
          "text": "One day the men in white will walk in, throw a net over him, and take him off to the laughing academy."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet",
          "text": "Meanwhile William struggled to shake the thought of his mother spending her final years locked away in a nuthouse—a laughing academy, a funny farm.",
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        "A mental hospital."
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        "(slang) A mental hospital."
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          "word": "mental hospital"
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
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  "word": "laughing academy"
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      "form": "laughing academies",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1971 Oct. 11, Stefan Kanfer, \"Cinema: Senescent Saint\" (film review of Kotch), Time (retrieved 7 June 2014)",
          "text": "Tell me, do you think your old man has slipped his trolley—that he belongs in a laughing academy?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981 Nov. 23, John Leonard, \"Books Of The Times\" (review of The Letters of Nunnally Johnson), New York Times (retrieved 7 June 2014)",
          "text": "One day the men in white will walk in, throw a net over him, and take him off to the laughing academy."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet",
          "text": "Meanwhile William struggled to shake the thought of his mother spending her final years locked away in a nuthouse—a laughing academy, a funny farm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A mental hospital."
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        "(slang) A mental hospital."
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        {
          "word": "mental hospital"
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