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hotbox

noun
hot·​box | \ ˈhät-ˌbäks How to pronounce hotbox (audio) \

Definition of hotbox

: a journal bearing (as of a railroad car) overheated by friction

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 But engineers on the second train halted their progress to fix a hotbox. — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, "The Hammond Train Wreck of 1918 Killed Scores of Circus Performers," 22 June 2018

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First Known Use of hotbox

1848, in the meaning defined above

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