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When used as verbs , clambake means to smoke marijuana in an enclosed space such as a car with the windows up, whereas hotbox means to smoke marijuana in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car, until it is full of smoke, thereby purportedly intensifying the drug's effects. Clambake is also adjective with the meaning: informal, makeshift, sloppy.
An informal beach party in which food, usually seafood, is cooked in a pit dug in the sand, filled with hot coals. I remember I wanted very much to dress in white for the clambake , some weeks after that, but you wouldn't allow it. There was to be a grand excursion and clambake at Setuckit Beach and all hands was going—four catboats full.
At eleven o'clock we had the clambake with beer in the kitchen, and Mr. I'm going to dig clams and catch crabs, and we'll have a clambake on shore, Sue.
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