hotbox
v.— «In CA it’s not a clambake but a hotbox…You can hotbox a car or a room etc.» —“Re: MJ Vocabulary” by TechnoShroom (technoshroom@geocities.com) Usenet: alt.drugs.pot Aug. 20, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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