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heat lamp

American  

noun

  1. a lamp fitted with an infrared bulb to supply heat especially as part of physical therapy.


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Fopiano said she has to turn her truck on throughout the night to power a red heat lamp to keep them warm.

From Seattle Times Aug. 21, 2023

Alan Cumming is one of the last celebs standing, hanging out under a heat lamp in a shiny silver suit.

From Washington Post Mar. 13, 2023

Compared to the cheeseburger wrapped in foil and kept under a heat lamp that I’d eaten the last time I went skiing, it was downright luxurious.

From New York Times Dec. 3, 2022

The chicks have spent the past four weeks indoors under a heat lamp.

From BBC May 18, 2022

Then they turned on a heat lamp, and watched as the jar with the aluminum foil lid got hotter than the one with no lid on it.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

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