ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Sweatbox

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Sweatbox is a noun meaning Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco.

Meaning

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.
(animation) The room where a scene is reviewed.
(animation) The review process that takes place in a sweat box.
(slang) A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty.
(slang, transitive) To place (a person) in a jail cell or a police van compartment.

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In the summer of 1945, one young boy died of heart failure while locked in a sweatbox, a popular corrective at that time.

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

[…] 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.

Related dictionary entries include hotbox, humidor, seatbox, stashbox, shoebox, thermobox.

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