boiler room
noun
1
: a room in which a boiler is located
2
: a room equipped with telephones used for making high-pressure usually fraudulent sales pitches
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Cleanup at Arrowhead Middle School after a fire that caught in the campus’s boiler room last week will take between four and six weeks, according to a Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools statement on Monday evening.
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Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2025
One of her older brothers, Herschel Matt Frierson, got shot to death at his job in a hospital boiler room after an argument with a security guard there.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
The woman may have also cleaned up after the killer and was seen dropping off a black garbage bag near the boiler room after the victim was discovered, neighbors said.
—Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 23 July 2025
After a minute and a half, the boiler rooms were flooded with the equivalent of nine Olympic swimming pools of water.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 July 2025
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Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2025
One of her older brothers, Herschel Matt Frierson, got shot to death at his job in a hospital boiler room after an argument with a security guard there.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
The woman may have also cleaned up after the killer and was seen dropping off a black garbage bag near the boiler room after the victim was discovered, neighbors said.
—Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 23 July 2025
After a minute and a half, the boiler rooms were flooded with the equivalent of nine Olympic swimming pools of water.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 July 2025
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“Boiler room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boiler%20room. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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