"loony bin" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Scribner, page 426",
          "text": "And perhaps, of course, her dreams had seemed more real to other people, too, than life could be—there was always that impossibility, more real than anything which seemed merely possible—at least in this old house by the roaring waves, this loony bin.",
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        "A lunatic asylum."
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        "(slang, derogatory) A lunatic asylum."
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          "word": "mental hospital"
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        "(slang, derogatory) A lunatic asylum."
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