fun house

fun house (plural fun houses)

1. A funhouse.
2. A carnival or amusement park attraction through which customers ramble to see unexpected clowns, distortion mirrors, ramps, slides, stairs, rotating barrel slides, etc.
3. (euphemistic) A brothel.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fun,‎ house.
   • 1988, Lorrie Baird, “Governor's Island Living”, in New Hampshire Profiles, volume 37, part 1, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22:

     The result is an eclectic home with a flair for the unusual and not a few touches of humor. It is a fun house, a relaxed house. From the minute you walk into the Cochrane home, "unique" jumps to mind.

   • 2004 April, Jay Uhlenbrauck, “Repeat [Repeat] Performance”, in Log Home Design, Active Interest Media, →ISSN, page 96:

     “The colors add a lot of warmth and the finishes turned out really well,” Matt says. “It's a fun house.”

   • 2011, Kenneth Ginsburg M.D. and Susan FitzGerald, Letting Go with Love and Confidence: Raising Responsible, Resilient, Self-Sufficient Teens in the 21st Century‎, Penguin, →ISBN:

     Barbara's sixteen-year-old son lashed out when she said he couldn't have friends over while she and her husband were gone, a rule she considered very much a safety issue. “This is not a fun house. No one wants to come here because this is not a fun house,” he protested before storming off.

   • 2019, Terry Darnell, Packing for Life: A Parent's Guide to Success‎, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC:

     We wanted to go to the fun houses, the ones where they would feed us and let us be a little rambunctious, the ones that had the least amount of rules and where the parents were cool.