sweatbox

Meanings

1. Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco
2. A jail cell.
3. A compartment in a police van to hold a prisoner being transported.
4. A small overheated cell or room used for solitary confinement or torture.
5. A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty.
6. The room where a scene is reviewed.
7. The review process that takes place in a sweat box.

1. To place (a person) in a jail cell or a police van compartment.
2. To review (work) in the designated room for such reviews.

Etymology

From sweat + box.