Hotbox

Quick meaning: Hotbox is a noun meaning A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents.

Meaning

A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents.

More Meanings

1. (engineering) An overheated shaft bearing.
2. A room or compartment that is kept artificially warm for some purpose.
3. A room or house that becomes unbearably hot inside when the weather is hot.
4. A small, hot, enclosure, used as a punishment for slaves or prisoners.
5. A furnace or heat source for a building.
6. A small, airtight space where people smoke marijuana in order to intensify the high.
7. A gas manifold that diverts hot gasses into a heat exchanger.

Example Sentences

A hotbox is a wonderful way to slow-cook your food. And it saves lots of electricity too.

We made a hundred pizzas with a variety of toppings and put them in hotboxes — portable sterno heaters.

Eager 'fang farriers' hurried forward to scrape the bottoms of the hotboxes and dixies of everything that was left.

First, in the early 1860s, he dabbled with hotboxes—simple devices that used a wooden box with a glass lid to trap heat from the sun.

Word Forms

• hotboxes
• hotboxing
• hotboxed

Synonyms for hotbox

Depending on context, synonyms include clambake.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hothouse, stove, haybox, hotbed, thermobox, coolhouse.

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