sweatbox

noun

sweat·box | \ ˈswet-ˌbäks

Definition of sweatbox

1 : a place in which one is made to sweat especially : a narrow box or cell in which a prisoner is placed for punishment

2 : a device for sweating something (such as hides in tanning or dried figs)

Recent Examples on the Web

The owners of Glasslands, a Kent Avenue sweatbox that closed in 2014, will make an encore with Elsewhere, a 24,000-square-foot performance space in Bushwick. — Ben Detrick, New York Times, "Where to Party in New York This Fall," 6 Sep. 2017 Adult transgressors spent days, or even months, in the sweatbox, a tiny windowless shack in which victims could only crouch on hands and knees. — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, "The Plot to Free North Korea With Smuggled Episodes of ‘Friends’," 1 Mar. 2015

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