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sweatbox.

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

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

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

  2. A jail cell.

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

    UK · slang
  4. A small overheated cell or room used for solitary confinement or torture.

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

    slang
  6. The room where a scene is reviewed.

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

Where this word comes from

From sweat + box.

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

    slang · transitive
  2. To review (work) in the designated room for such reviews.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From sweat + box.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.