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sweat box
noun- a police interview room UK
- Coppers have their own pet names for interview rooms. “The Confessional”, “The Sweat Box”, “The Truth Chamber”. — John Wainwright, The Last Buccaneer, 1971
- the waiting area outside the room in which a parole hearing is to take place US, 1962
- — Frank Prewitt and Francis Schaeffer, Vacaville Vocabulary, 1961–1962
- a vehicle for transporting prisoners in small individual cubicles UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 112, 1996
- The journey was about as uncomfortable as any other journey I’d taken in a sweatbox since 1975. — Noel ‘Razor’ Smith, A Rusty Gun, p. 13, 2010
- in trucking, a sleeping compartment behind the seat US
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 160, 1971
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