Boiler room (business) protection. A fictional "boiler room" brokerage firm was dramatized in the 2000 film "Boiler Room", and the play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross" show a similar boiler room operation selling real estate. The 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, also involves a boiler-room investment business and is based on the memoir of convicted penny stock fraudster, Jordan Belfort. A 2010 episode of the television series "White Collar" depicted fictional conman Neal Caffrey infiltrating a group of corrupt brokers also peddling inflated penny stocks. Boiler room (business) In business, the term boiler room refers to an outbound
Hybrid word Hybrid word A hybrid word or hybridism is a word that etymologically derives from at least two languages. The most common form of hybrid word in English combines Latin and Greek parts. Since many prefixes and suffixes in English are of Latin or Greek etymology, it is straightforward to add a prefix or suffix from one language to an English word that comes from a different language, thus creating a hybrid word. Modern Hebrew abounds with non-Semitic derivational affixes, which are applied to words of both Semitic and non-Semitic descent. The following hybrid words consist of a Hebrew-descent word and