animal house

English

Etymology

The term pre-dates the 1978 film Animal House.

Noun

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

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