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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
Her photographs include cheerily decorated lounges, repurposed office spaces, prefabricated lactation pods, boiler rooms, restaurant basements, cafeterias, bathrooms, trains, and pop-up tents.
“Hayden took J.W. into a boiler room in the City of Ferguson jail,” the papers charge.
She held on to the hair as Hayden led her further back into the boiler room.
They look at each other meaningfully—and repair to the boiler room for some torrid sex.
Stratton Oakmont was a classic boiler room—it even inspired a 2000 movie called Boiler Room.
The boiler-room telegraphs, stoking indicators, rudder indicators, clocks and thermostats were also electrical.
But she could not remain afloat with the four compartments and the forward boiler room (No. 6) also flooded.
This door and the one on the D bulkhead formed a double protection to the forward boiler room.
The boiler-room's bad enough, I grant ye that, but it's a darn sight better than goin' to jail.
We'll go now to the boiler-room and see how we make the steam that gives life to the cylinders.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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