funhouse

See also: fun house

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fun +‎ house.

Pronunciation

Noun

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.”

Derived terms

Translations

Translations
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.