boiler room

noun

1. a room in a building, ship, etc., that houses one or more steam boilers.
2. Slang.
   1. a place where illicit brokers engage in high-pressure selling, over the telephone, of securities of a highly speculative nature or of dubious value.
   2. 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

1. any room in a building (often in the basement) that contains a boiler for central heating, etc
2. the part of a steam ship that houses the boilers and furnaces
3. the room or department in which the real work of an organization goes on unseen
4. ( chiefly US ) an office used by a team of telephone salespeople, esp of stocks and shares, operating under high pressure
5. 1. a fraudulent scheme in which investors are encouraged to buy non-existent, worthless, or over-priced shares
   2. ( as modifier )

      a boiler-room scam

Other Words From

• boiler-room adjective

Example Sentences

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.

From Los Angeles Times

Besides six floors of classrooms, two basements and a supposedly haunted boiler room, the roof hides a three-level labyrinthine attic where seniors postgraduation may make their mark, along with the names of thousands of other alums, on the wooden walls with chalk.

From Seattle Times

“It was Wu-Tang-ish. And we knew that. But it was still Southern,” Wade told Boiler Room.

From New York Times

He and his siblings used to play in the ship’s boiler room, hopping between turbines.

From New York Times

He took Mr. Drescher under his wing as he built a boiler room brokerage that would go on to defraud more than 1,000 investors, later memorialized in Martin Scorsese’s box office hit “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

From New York Times