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boiler room
noun
an office used in an elaborate swindle US, 1931- — American Speech, May 1959: “Notes on the cant of the telephone confidence man”
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 18, 1980
- “An office, a secretary, a car, juice money for the real estate people, the boiler room, bleepety, bleepety bleep.” — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 78, 1981
- — M. Allen Henderson, How Con Games Work, p. 218, 1985
- Those boiler-room scams can get a guy chucked into a single room with three roommates. For about five years. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Golden Orange, p. 251, 1990
- He ran boiler rooms and bucket shops. — Stephen Cannell, King Con, p. 35, 1997
- Boca Raton supposedly had more telephone boiler rooms than Calcutta. — Carl Hiaasen, Nature Girl, p. 295, 2006
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