animal house

== English == === Etymology === The term pre-dates the 1978 film Animal House. === Noun === animal house (plural animal houses) (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