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sweatbox

noun

Etymology

From sweat + box.

  1. derived from Boxenstopp
  2. derived from pyxis
  3. derived from buxis
  4. inherited from *buhsā✻
  5. inherited from box
  6. inherited from box — “container, box, cup”
  7. compounded as sweatbox — “sweat + box”

Definitions

  1. Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco

    • Australia Post has been accused of endangering staff with "sweatbox" uniforms and restricting earlier starts to save money.

  2. A jail cell.

  3. A compartment in a police van to hold a prisoner being transported.

    • […] she was finally hustled into a sweatbox, as prisoners and prison staff called it, and was off to meet her new home for the foreseeable future.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A small overheated cell or room used for solitary confinement or torture.

      • In the summer of 1945, one young boy died of heart failure while locked in a sweatbox, a popular corrective at that time.
      • Don't step in the wrong spot You will gеt caught When you step in the swеatbox They'll make you talk

    2. A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty.

    3. The room where a scene is reviewed.

    4. The review process that takes place in a sweat box.

    5. To place (a person) in a jail cell or a police van compartment.

    6. To review (work) in the designated room for such reviews.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA