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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
“I mean, I have never even heard of a boiler room” before coming to work there, she said.
The team inside the boiler room includes local workers and Naomi Pearmine, a Marine Engineer.
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.
Imagine the visual explosion of the Sphere in Las Vegas with the intimacy of a Boiler Room set, all inside a cube-shaped structure.
For Katz, it led to steady work that included playing Bond villain Billy Ray Cobb in “A Time to Kill,” a cutthroat stockbroker in “Boiler Room,” a hitman in Soderbergh’s “The Limey” and a theater actor who portrays Adolf Hitler in the director’s 2002 film “Full Frontal.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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