sweatbox

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A jail cell. US,slang
  3. A compartment in a police van to hold a prisoner being transported. UK,slang
    — 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?'
  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.
  5. A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty. slang
  6. The room where a scene is reviewed.
  7. The review process that takes place in a sweat box.
动词 v.
  1. To place (a person) in a jail cell or a police van compartment. slang,transitive
  2. To review (work) in the designated room for such reviews. transitive

词形变化

sweatboxes plural sweatboxes present,singular,third-person sweatboxing participle,present sweatboxed participle,past sweatboxed past

词源

词源 1
From sweat + box.
词源 2
From sweat + box.
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