sweatbox
IPA: swˈɛtbɑks
noun
- Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco
- (US, slang) A jail cell.
- (UK, slang) A compartment in a police van to hold a prisoner being transported.
- A small overheated cell or room used for solitary confinement or torture.
- (slang) A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty.
- (animation) The room where a scene is reviewed.
- (animation) The review process that takes place in a sweat box.
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Examples of "sweatbox" in Sentences
- Sweatbox was a low budget, high ambition project.
- The previous Sweatbox is missing one track off the original LP.
- Police are conducting a homicide investigation into "sweatbox" deaths
- At 10pm they finally get into the sweatbox and continue to drink heavily.
- 'I don't think the confines of a sweatbox are a very clever environment to honk up in.'
- Two people died and were 19 injured after spending up to two hours inside this "sweatbox" at an Arizona resort.
- info on the coveted "sweatbox" is given and all people can do is complain about stealing bandwidth? get a life!
- This special snowflake of the earth is very, very upset about the backlash after james ray's "sweatbox" in sedona.
- La Macarena is Barcelona's underground gem – a diminutive, subterranean, rough-around-the-edges sweatbox of a club.
- D'Evelyn said sheriff's deputies at the scene learned those injured had been part of a larger group housed in a "sweatbox" type structure on the property.
- Since I lived in a fourth floor walk-up converted attic affectionately known as the sweatbox, I spent a lot of time on the first floor in Booge and Jarhead's dorm room.
- So the local authorities have been busy investigating James Arthur Ray and his sweatbox, and some of the documents and details have been released to the media and public.
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