HOT BOX | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of hot box in English hot boxnoun [ C ] (also hotbox, hot-box) uk /ˈhɒt ˌbɒks/ us /ˈhɑːt ˌbɑːks/ Add to word list Add to word list a small room that can be made very hot: He claimed he had been detained in a hot box placed outside under a boiling sun. You could try sweating off the pounds in a hot-box. a difficult situation which you cannot easily escape, where there is a lot of pressure: The company has been forced into a financial hot box. a container for keeping food hot: There is room for a fridge or hot box in the middle of the car's front seat.

• In the jockeys' room is a large, glass-windowed sauna, known as the hot box or sweat box.
• They created a hotbox designed to help athletes prepare for the stifling heat expected when they compete at the Olympic Games next year.
• We bumped across the savannah in a Land Rover that was like a hot-box.
• A situation like this puts the attorney in a hotbox of decisions where there is no clear path.
• He was trapped in a hot box of his own making.
• The school invested in hot boxes to transport the food from the kitchens.

Parts of buildings: rooms

• antechamber
• anteroom
• atelier
• attic
• ballroom
• drawing room
• dressing room
• efficiency room
• en suite
• eyrie
• meat locker
• mud room
• multi-chambered
• multi-room
• observation lounge
• twin-bedded
• utility room
• vestibule
• waiting room
• wet room

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Hot & heat Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences Preparing food using heat hot boxverb [ I or T ]   informal (also hotbox, hot-box) uk /ˈhɒt ˌbɒks/ us /ˈhɑːt ˌbɑːks/ to fill a small room or space with smoke from something, especially an illegal drug, in order to be able to breathe it in: He said that many teens were familiar with "hot boxing" in a vehicle to inhale marijuana. Are you aware of the dangers of hotboxing a car?

• The study showed that hotboxing a room with weed did intoxicate non-smokers in the room.

Tobacco & smoking

• anti-cigarette
• anti-tobacco
• baccy
• big tobacco
• bong
• briar
• chain-smoker
• cheroot
• cigarette
• filter tip
• nicotine patch
• non-tobacco
• puffer
• roll up! idiom
• roll-your-own
• second-hand smoke
• smokeless
• tobacco
• tobacconist
• weed

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