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sweat box

[swet-boks]

sweat·box

[swet-boks]
noun
1.
a sauna or other enclosure for sweating.
2.
any uncomfortably warm room or environment.
3.
a box or cell in which a prisoner is punished or given the third degree.
4.
a device for removing moisture from tobacco leaves, figs, raisins, etc.

Origin:
1870–75; sweat + box1
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Sweat box is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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