sweatbox

[ swet-boks ]

noun
  1. a sauna or other enclosure for sweating.

  2. any uncomfortably warm room or environment.

  1. a box or cell in which a prisoner is punished or given the third degree.

  2. a device for removing moisture from tobacco leaves, figs, raisins, etc.

Origin of sweatbox

1
First recorded in 1870–75; sweat + box1

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British Dictionary definitions for sweatbox

sweatbox

/ (ˈswɛtˌbɒks) /


noun
  1. a device for causing tobacco leaves, fruit, or hides to sweat

  2. a very small pen or cubicle where a pig is fattened intensively

  1. informal, mainly US a narrow room or cell for a prisoner

  2. informal any place where a person sweats on account of confinement, heat, etc

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