Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sweatbox

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English

Syllables: sweat-box
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

noun

American usage; Slang

noun

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

British usage; Slang

noun

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

noun

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

Slang

noun

The room where a scene is reviewed.

noun

The review process that takes place in a sweat box.

verb

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

Slang; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Australia Post has been accused of endangering staff with "sweatbox" uniforms and restricting earlier starts to save money."
"They shoved me in the back of a police van and started driving to the cop shop. I was sitting in the sweatbox, wondering how the Dibble had got onto me so quickly, when I heard a voice from another section of the van say, 'Are you P from Macclesfield?'"
"[…] 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."
"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"

Etymology

From sweat + box.

Usage

American usage
Slang
British usage
Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

sweatboxes (plural) sweatboxes (present, singular) sweatboxing (participle, present) sweatboxed (participle, past) sweatboxed (past)

Questions

What does sweatbox mean?: Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco
Where does sweatbox come from?: From sweat + box.

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