sweatbox
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Is sweatbox a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of sweatbox?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (US, slang) A jail cell.USslang
2. (UK, slang) A compartment in a police van to hold a prisoner being transported.Examples: "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."UKslang
3. (slang) A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty.slang
4. (animation) The room where a scene is reviewed.
5. (animation) The review process that takes place in a sweat box.
verb (English)
1. (slang, transitive) To place (a person) in a jail cell or a police van compartment.slangtransitive
2. (animation, transitive) To review (work) in the designated room for such reviews.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary