单词 | sweatbox |
释义 | sweatbox[ swet-boks ] / ˈswɛtˌbɒks / nouna sauna or other enclosure for sweating. any uncomfortably warm room or environment. a box or cell in which a prisoner is punished or given the third degree. a device for removing moisture from tobacco leaves, figs, raisins, etc. Origin of sweatboxFirst recorded in 1870–75; sweat + box1 Words nearby sweatboxswearword, sweat, sweatband, sweat bee, sweat blood, sweatbox, sweat bullets, sweated, sweat equity, sweater, sweatercoat Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for sweatboxsweatbox / (ˈswɛtˌbɒks) / nouna device for causing tobacco leaves, fruit, or hides to sweat a very small pen or cubicle where a pig is fattened intensively informal, mainly US a narrow room or cell for a prisoner informal any place where a person sweats on account of confinement, heat, etc Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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