sin bin

See also sin-bin

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Alternative forms

• sin-bin
• sinbin

Noun

sin bin (plural sin bins)

1. (sports) An area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play following an infringement of the rules of the game.
   • 1985: Nicholas Mosely, Accident (ISBN 0916583112)

     Tommy Parker had propped Sporting World against a waterjug. He said "I see Max de Woppa spent three minutes in the sin bin."

   • 2005: Rachel K. Gibson or Janet Evanovich or Alexandra Barnaby, The Trouble With Valentine's Day or Metro Girl

     Rob received a minor penalty, and as he served out his three minutes kicking back in the sin bin, Chinook's sniper, Pierre Dion, shot from the point.

   • 2007:David Ellaray, quoted in The Marketing of Sport by Simon Chadwick and John G. Beech (ISBN 027368826X)

     I would like to see the sin bin used instead of yellow cards.

2. (figuratively) A place for transgressors, a limbo; an area in which one may confine one's self after (or in order to avert) transgressions.
   • 1999: Brian Moynahan, Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned

     It was hardly a concession. for he regarded Siberia as his sin bin, a place to take to when a cooling-off period was needed.

   • 2009: Norman Maclean, The Leper's Bell: The Autobiography of a Changeling, Birlinn Limited, p 174

     [...] she began work in a local primary school while I took up a post as Depute Head Teacher in a sin-bin in the east end of Glasgow, Garthamlock Secondary.

3. (Australian) (colloquial) A panel van with a bed installed in the back.

Synonyms

• penalty box

See also

• red card
• yellow card

Verb

sin bin (third-person singular simple present sin bins, present participle sin binning, simple past and past participle sin binned)

1. (sports, usually in passive voice) to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule in a game