BOILER ROOM Definition & Meaning

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boiler room

noun

a room in a building, ship, etc., that houses one or more steam boilers.
Slang.
1. a place where illicit brokers engage in high-pressure selling, over the telephone, of securities of a highly speculative nature or of dubious value.
2. any room or business where salespeople, bill collectors, solicitors for charitable donations, etc., conduct an intensive telephone campaign, especially in a fast-talking or intimidating manner.

boiler room

noun

any room in a building (often in the basement) that contains a boiler for central heating, etc
the part of a steam ship that houses the boilers and furnaces
the room or department in which the real work of an organization goes on unseen
( chiefly US ) an office used by a team of telephone salespeople, esp of stocks and shares, operating under high pressure
1. a fraudulent scheme in which investors are encouraged to buy non-existent, worthless, or over-priced shares
2. ( as modifier )
  a boiler-room scam

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Just behind the hot room is a boiler room.

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In a standout episode of the series, “Self Esteem,” Angela skips geometry review to make out with Jordan in the school boiler room, but grows frustrated as he refuses to acknowledge their relationship in public.

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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.

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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.

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“It was Wu-Tang-ish. And we knew that. But it was still Southern,” Wade told Boiler Room.

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