hotbox
v.— «“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.”» —“Re: smoking in dorm room” by jgwacker@iastate.edu (Jay) Usenet: alt.drugs Feb. 18, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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