sweatbox

sweat·box (sw

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1. A box in which something, such as hides or fruit, is fermented by sweating.

2. Slang A confined place where a person sweats, especially:

a. An interrogation room.

b. A prison cell used for special punishment.

sweatbox [ˈswɛtˌbɒks]

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a device for causing tobacco leaves, fruit, or hides to sweat

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a very small pen or cubicle where a pig is fattened intensively

3. (Law) Informal chiefly US a narrow room or cell for a prisoner

4. Informal any place where a person sweats on account of confinement, heat, etc.

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Noun	1.	sweatbox - small or narrow cell jail cell, prison cell, cell - a room where a prisoner is kept
	2.	sweatbox - a device that causes tobacco leaves or fruit or hides to sweat device - an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water"

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jail cell
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It makes me feel a bit more of a grown-up than I do on the usual sweatbox circuit.

KID'S SOLO; Carl Barat goes it alone for low-key Scots gig by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)

The talk inside their sweatbox Humvees repeatedly turns to the threat of roadside bombs, who got lucky, who didn't, and how helpless they are to predict when and where the next device will explode.

Back to Baghdad by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

There is quite obviously something special about Calzaghe senior, given his track record for producing champions out of the humble sweatbox surroundings of a converted Abercarn rugby changing room.

Boxing: Enzo fires last shots in the war of words; 'All we have heard ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)

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