press box

press box
a) The section in a stadium or arena set aside for the press, or specifically for sportscasters.

In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.

b) In a cotton gin, the box in which lint is compacted by a tramper.

In most gins cotton is packaged in a "double-box" press wherein the lint is initially compacted in one press box by a mechanical or hydraulic tramper.


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  • press box — {n.} The place or room high in a sports stadium that is for newspaper men and radio and television announcers. * /In baseball the official scorer sits in the press box./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

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