hotbox

v. 1. to smoke marijuana in an enclosed space so that it becomes filled with smoke; 2. to take a long drag or a quick series of drags on a joint or cigarette. Subjects: Drugs, Slang

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Citations: 1994 [jgwacker@iastate.edu (Jay)] Usenet: alt.drugs (Feb. 18) “Re: smoking in dorm room”: “I feel sorry for you, just try to find a safe place outside that you can go and smoke"… “try hot boxing a car :) it works… although you have to be careful, and out on some old gravel road.” 1995 [rbenson@is.dal.ca (Ryan Benson)] Usenet: alt.drugs (Mar. 3) “Cats’ reaction to Mary Jane”: “My cat loves getting stoned too, but I’m concerned for her health as well, do you think I’m wrong to let her passive smoke my weed?” “Ditto…my roommates love to hotbox a room, and usually invite my cat in to join them.” 1996 George P. Pelecanos The Big Blowdown (June 1) p. 161 @ (Sept. 24, 1999): Karras took a drag off the Lucky, hotboxed it with a tandem draw, pitched it away. 1998 [TechnoShroom (technoshroom@geocities.com)] Usenet: alt.drugs.pot (Aug. 20) “Re: MJ Vocabulary”: In CA it’s not a clambake but a hotbox…You can hotbox a car or a room etc. 1999 [canoedj@aol.com (CanoedJ)] Usenet: alt.drugs.pot (Feb. 8) “Re: Holding your smoke in?”: Have you ever hotboxed a car, closet, room before, Its the same principal as a madhatter, or breathing into a bag. 2004 Sheilnak.com (Sept. 24) “Word up, it’s a ghetto dictionary”: Hotbox—to smoke marijuana in a confined space so that the smoke remains in circulation. “we hotboxed the car.” 2004 Peter Plate Angels of Catastrophe (Dec. 10) @ Outlaw Bible of American Literature Alan Kaufman p. 456: Lonely Boy hotboxed the cigarette and exhaled three perfectly symmetrical smoke rings, working his jaw like a locomotive to execute the trick.

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My parents and I are having a “discussion” over the definition of hotbox. My parents say that their generation coined the term decades ago with the definition being a series of puffs, I argue that my interpretation, smoking in a small space, is more the true definition.

by Lauren 02 Mar 07, 1051 GMT

A “hot box” was an overheated axle bearing on a railroad car. Until the mid 1900s, railroad axle bearings were housed in a “box” that used oil-soaked rags or other packing to reduce the friction between the axle and the wheel assembly, or “truck”. When the oil leaked out or dried up, the bearings would overheat. The packing would begin to smolder. This often resulted in a fire that could destroy the railroad car, and its contents, if not detected.

by Peter Herbert 05 Mar 07, 0413 GMT

I am at a loss what the word “hot-box” could mean in the sentence “Mrs. Unger was known _from hot-box to hot-bed,_ as the local phrase went, for her political addresses” from THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ by F.S. Fitzgerald. I guess the whole phrase means that everybody knew her, but what kind of a hot-box has something to do with it and with a hot-bed?

by Alexei 09 Jun 07, 0357 GMT