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

Her photographs include cheerily decorated lounges, repurposed office spaces, prefabricated lactation pods, boiler rooms, restaurant basements, cafeterias, bathrooms, trains, and pop-up tents.

From Time

“Hayden took J.W. into a boiler room in the City of Ferguson jail,” the papers charge.

From The Daily Beast

She held on to the hair as Hayden led her further back into the boiler room.

From The Daily Beast

They look at each other meaningfully—and repair to the boiler room for some torrid sex.

From The Daily Beast

Stratton Oakmont was a classic boiler room—it even inspired a 2000 movie called Boiler Room.

From The Daily Beast

The boiler-room telegraphs, stoking indicators, rudder indicators, clocks and thermostats were also electrical.

From Project Gutenberg

But she could not remain afloat with the four compartments and the forward boiler room (No. 6) also flooded.

From Project Gutenberg

This door and the one on the D bulkhead formed a double protection to the forward boiler room.

From Project Gutenberg

The boiler-room's bad enough, I grant ye that, but it's a darn sight better than goin' to jail.

From Project Gutenberg

We'll go now to the boiler-room and see how we make the steam that gives life to the cylinders.

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