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 His Summer 2022 boiler room set, which did as much as anything to propel him to stardom, particularly in the U.S., demonstrates the hardware-heavy, production process. Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024 The Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas takes the cake for most haunted hotel, for its talks of the owner’s spirit lingering in the boiler room. Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023 Perhaps that sounds too abstract to be much help in the boiler room atmosphere of Detroit C-suites right now. WIRED, 1 Oct. 2023 The penthouse is invisible from the street, and was converted in the 1980s from what was then the boiler room of the former Prince George Hotel. Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 5 Jan. 2023 One night in 1966, the watertight doors in the engine and boiler rooms were ordered to be closed. Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023 The next year was spent constructing the decks, interiors and boiler rooms. Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023 Smith comes from a long line of veterans and served in the Navy himself as a boiler room technician on an amphibious assault ship from 1981 to 1984. Isabel Spiegel, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2023 Peyton List plays Maddie, an outsider with outsider friends, who wakes up dead — thought missing, she has been murdered in the school boiler room — and sets out to discover her killer. Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1820, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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“Boiler room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boiler%20room. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

Legal Definition

boiler room

noun
boil·​er room
: a room equipped with telephones used for making high-pressure usually fraudulent sales pitches
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