sweatbox
verbEtymology From sweat + box.
1
Slang To place (a person) in a jail cell or a police van compartment.
2
To review (work) in the designated room for such reviews.
sweatbox
nounEtymology From sweat + box.
7 senses
- 1Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating…
- 2A jail cell.
- 3A compartment in a police van to hold a prisoner being…
- 4A small overheated cell or room used for solitary…
- 5A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get…
- 6The room where a scene is reviewed.
- 7The review process that takes place in a sweat box.
1
Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco
- Australia Post has been accused of endangering staff with "sweatbox" uniforms and restricting earlier starts to save money.2009 January 31, Karen Collier, “Posties buckle in scorching heat”, in Herald Sun:
- 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?'2013, Colin Blaney, Hotshot: The Story of a Little Red Devil:
- […] 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.2018, Kerry Barnes, Deceit:
4
A small overheated cell or room used for solitary confinement or torture.
- In the summer of 1945, one young boy died of heart failure while locked in a sweatbox, a popular corrective at that time.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 143:
- Don't step in the wrong spot You will gеt caught When you step in the swеatbox They'll make you talk2023, “A Drone Opting Out of the Hive”, performed by Code Orange:
5
Slang A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty.
6
The room where a scene is reviewed.
7
The review process that takes place in a sweat box.