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boiler room
noun as in bucket shop
Weak match
noun as in confidence game
noun as in con game
Example Sentences
When Charli nodded to her after-hours Boiler Room DJ triumphs on “365” or thrashed on the floor to “Blame It on Your Love,” she changed what was possible for an artist at this tier of fame.
Besides six floors of classrooms, two basements and a supposedly haunted boiler room, the roof hides a three-level labyrinthine attic where seniors postgraduation may make their mark, along with the names of thousands of other alums, on the wooden walls with chalk.
“It was Wu-Tang-ish. And we knew that. But it was still Southern,” Wade told Boiler Room.
He and his siblings used to play in the ship’s boiler room, hopping between turbines.
He took Mr. Drescher under his wing as he built a boiler room brokerage that would go on to defraud more than 1,000 investors, later memorialized in Martin Scorsese’s box office hit “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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