boiler room
noun
1
: a room in which a boiler is located
2
: a room equipped with telephones used for making high-pressure usually fraudulent sales pitches
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The woman may have also cleaned up after the killer and was seen dropping off a black garbage bag near the boiler room after the victim was discovered, neighbors said.
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Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 23 July 2025
After a minute and a half, the boiler rooms were flooded with the equivalent of nine Olympic swimming pools of water.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 July 2025
The business models of many of these firms resemble and blend together two different types of venerable scam business models - boiler rooms and pyramid schemes.
—Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
The pool’s mechanical room looks like the boiler room of an ocean liner — with giant tanks that purify pool water and another system that stabilizes the temperature.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
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Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 23 July 2025
After a minute and a half, the boiler rooms were flooded with the equivalent of nine Olympic swimming pools of water.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 July 2025
The business models of many of these firms resemble and blend together two different types of venerable scam business models - boiler rooms and pyramid schemes.
—Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
The pool’s mechanical room looks like the boiler room of an ocean liner — with giant tanks that purify pool water and another system that stabilizes the temperature.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for boiler room
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“Boiler room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boiler%20room. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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