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boiler room
noun
- a room in a building, ship, etc., that houses one or more steam boilers.
- Slang.
- a place where illicit brokers engage in high-pressure selling, over the telephone, of securities of a highly speculative nature or of dubious value.
- any room or business where salespeople, bill collectors, solicitors for charitable donations, etc., conduct an intensive telephone campaign, especially in a fast-talking or intimidating manner.
boiler room
noun
- any room in a building (often in the basement) that contains a boiler for central heating, etc
- the part of a steam ship that houses the boilers and furnaces
- the room or department in which the real work of an organization goes on unseen
- ( chiefly US ) an office used by a team of telephone salespeople, esp of stocks and shares, operating under high pressure
- a fraudulent scheme in which investors are encouraged to buy non-existent, worthless, or over-priced shares
- ( as modifier )
a boiler-room scam
Other Word Forms
- Ǿİ-Ǵdz adjective
Example Sentences
For Katz, it led to steady work that included playing Bond villain Billy Ray Cobb in “A Time to Kill,” a cutthroat stockbroker in “Boiler Room,” a hitman in Soderbergh’s “The Limey” and a theater actor who portrays Adolf Hitler in the director’s 2002 film “Full Frontal.”
The scan provides a new view of a boiler room, confirming eye-witness accounts that engineers worked right to the end to keep the ship's lights on.
Just behind the hot room is a boiler room.
In a standout episode of the series, “Self Esteem,” Angela skips geometry review to make out with Jordan in the school boiler room, but grows frustrated as he refuses to acknowledge their relationship in public.
When Charli nodded to her after-hours Boiler Room DJ triumphs on “365” or thrashed on the floor to “Blame It on Your Love,” she changed what was possible for an artist at this tier of fame.
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