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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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Kristen Stewart and her finance Dylan Meyer chatted with Daniel Kaluuya near a well-placed heat lamp, while Chloë Sevigny surveyed the room a few feet away.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2024

Perhaps the burger you buy has suffered from being wrapped and left under a heat lamp, with the result that the bun is a bit squashed, she suggests.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 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

On “The Tonight Show,” Fallon wondered whether Trump has “been living at Mar-a-Lago or under a heat lamp at Golden Corral.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2022

Bo keeps to himself in the kitchen, but we play a game of Catch Me If You Can with our eyes over the heat lamp counters.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

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