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(slang) Short for loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).

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At the moment, and in "an emergency", you or I could be sent to the bin, willy-nilly, on the say-so of a single doctor (who may never have seen us before, and need have no particular experience of mental illness), so long as the application is supported by one of our relatives, or by a "social worker".

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1973, New Scientist, volume 58, number 852, page 822: