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An area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play following an infringement of the rules of the game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- 2012: Phil Gifford, Rivals: Sports Greatest Battles, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page, At the play-the-ball Tamati and Dowling started jostling each other, then punching. The referee sent them to the sin bin.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A place for transgressors, a limbo; a place of confinement or self-isolation after (or in order to avert) transgressions; a state of disgrace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- 2004, Allison James, Adrian James, Constructing Childhood: Theory, Policy and Social Practice, Palgrave MacMillan, 130, As the pupils who would be the occupants of the sin-bins would not be counted as having been excluded from schools - being simply rehoused within them - the Government′s policy to cut the number of permanent school exclusions would remain intact, while the complaints made by teachers could also be addressed.
- 2004, John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher, Volume 2: The Iron Lady, page 214, She was obliged to leave him in the sin-bin for four years.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A referral unit or special class for frequent truants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, colloquial
Topics: education
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Synonym of fuck truck: A panel van with a mattress in the back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, US, colloquial
Examples
- 1972 September, What′s New: Rolling pad, Popular Science, page 70, There′s a shag rug on the floor, padding on walls and ceiling, and, for extra comfort, a 600-gallon water bed. The Sin Bin is made by Chinook Mobilodge.
- 1978 March, Jim Elder, Camp/work conversion, Popular Mechanics, page 110, There is the shag-carpet “sin bin” with its fur upholstery, mahogany paneling, stained glass, color TV and chrome sidepipes.
- 1986 January, A Family Affair, Popular Mechanics, page 86, Unlike the full-size Sin Bins of the ′70s, the new family vans are cute, comfortable and carlike.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fuck truck
Antonyms: none provided
to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule in a game
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: usually in passive voice
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
From sin + bin. Apparently Australian. Usage of the panel van sense is influenced by the US trade name.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Finnish:
jäähyaitio
— sports: an area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play
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French:
banc
— sports: an area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play
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Irish:
loca pionóis
— sports: an area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play
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Irish:
póna peacaí
— sports: an area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play
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Māori:
pouaka hara
— sports: an area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play
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Finnish:
antaa jäähy
— sports: to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule
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Finnish:
tuomita jäähy
— sports: to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule
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Irish:
cuir sa loca pionóis
— sports: to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule
