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

Examples of boiler room in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

When people started having problems with the cars, Musk established a boiler room full of scammers who took the calls and lied about how the cars could be fixed. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026

Some of the areas include the combat information center, message center (radio central), forward main engine room, boiler room, aircraft elevator machinery room, arresting gear engine room and more. — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2026

This new three-part docuseries interviews Belfort's former wife, his co-conspirators, and his victims to dive deep into how his boiler room operation pumped, dumped, and ripped off chumps. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026

In a post shared to Facebook, the Bridgeport Police Department said the leak, measuring at 500-600 parts per million, was originating from the prison's boiler room. — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 3 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1820, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for boiler room

• anteroom
• assume
• backroom
• ballroom
• barroom
• bathroom
• bedroom
• boardroom
• bridegroom
• classroom
• cloakroom
• consume

Legal Definition

boiler room

noun

boil·​er room

: a room equipped with telephones used for making high-pressure usually fraudulent sales pitches