hotbox noun 18verb 4forms 3 noun18 •A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents.We made a hundred pizzas with a variety of toppings and put them in hotboxes — portable sterno heaters. — 1986 •An oven. •A room or compartment that is kept artificially warm for some purpose.The hotbox should be located in the nearest vicinity of the sorting room. The hotbox is a chamber in which air can be heated to a temperature of about 60 ° C. — 1964 •A cold frame containing compost that provides a limited amount of warmth.You can take what you want from these two hotboxes, because I'm only going to throw them out as manure. — 2006 •A box for hot composting.I have two Hotboxes for composting garden and kitchen waste. — 2021 •An incubator. •A small, airtight space where people smoke marijuana in order to intensify the high.The blackouts, the hangovers, the vomiting, the hotboxes, the detox, the shame, and the degradation. — 2012 •An overheated shaft bearing.If a hotbox is not discovered early, the temperature of the journal or bearing may rise to a critical level, so that the wheel end of the journal may burn off and cause a derailment of the car. — 1972 •An overheated axle box, bearing and bearing enclosure.In particular, hot boxes on freight trains are a persistent problem. — 1963 •A room or house that becomes unbearably hot inside when the weather is hot.With portholes and doors secured, the staterooms became hotboxes and the odor from the galley an unendurable stench. — 1997 •A small, hot, enclosure, used as a punishment for slaves or prisoners.In recent years, it had been believed that hotboxes only existed in movies such as Cool Hand Luke and Bridge Over The River Kwai. — 1980 •A furnace or heat source for a building.When combined, these three DIY “hotboxes“ introduce enough hot air into this home to carry 30 to 40 percent of the home heating load. — 2017 •(vulgar, offensive) A sexy woman.They drove on with comments about "redskin hotboxes who didn't wear any pants at all," and kept calling me "chief" in a sneering manner. — 1989 •A location where controversial ideas are discussed or practiced.CMA's "hotboxes" give sources a chance to role-play before they face a real interview . — 1987 •A soundproof box used to hold a camera in order to prevent the sound of its operation interfering with the recording of a film.A loading room must be considered unsafe until tested, regardless of whether it is a permanent, temperature-controlled, air-filtered installation or a portable plywood "hotbox” on a sound stage. — 1970 •A storage container for personal belongings of employees who are hot desking. •A gas manifold that diverts hot gasses into a heat exchanger.It is planned to take the existing ventilation system and use it to exhaust the areas outside of the hotboxes, but to have the new system take over for the various hotboxes. — 1957 •A context-sensitive dialog that duplicates many of the commands on the menu for users of the Maya Embedded Language.Another way to easily access menus is by using the hotbox, which appears when you press the spacebar. — 2006 verb4 •(slang) To smoke marijuana in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car, until it is full of smoke, thereby intensifying the drug's effects.Jane hotboxed the tent earlier. •(slang) To put out a cigarette just before entering a vehicle, then expel smoke in the vehicle. •(slang) To smoke a cigarette vigorously and rapidly. •(slang) To fart in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car. formshotboxed · hotboxing · hotboxes
