1(in sport) a box or bench to which offending players can be sent for a period as a penalty during a game, especially in ice hockey.
(尤指冰球比赛中的)被罚下场球员的座席,受罚席
his cross-check earned him two minutes in the sin bin
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Both sides lost a player to the sin bin just before the interval.
The referee, under pressure from the home crowd, sent a Keighley player to sin bin for ten minutes for a very dubious high tackle.
The Broncos were a man short for the last 20 minutes after losing two players to the sin bin, but made the Bulls fight to the end.
It would be pointless losing player after player to the sin bin.
Both clubs had a player sent off to the sin bin within a minute of each other.
1.1British A place where offenders are sent for detention, punishment, or rehabilitation.
〈英〉劳教所
sin bins for disruptive prisoners
a child removed to a sin bin
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Problem families would be moved to ‘sin bins’ - secure gated communities patrolled by wardens and CCTV cameras, where they would face curfews and be kept away from the rest of society.
Any pupil who needs to be told a third time will immediately be shown a red card and forced to spend the equivalent of an entire school day in a sin bin - a classroom set aside for the punishment.
How long will we have to wait before he endorses the Tories idea of ‘sin bins’ to detain young offenders?
He could still be sent to the sin bin with time off for good behavior.
Well not really, because he then spent his time in the sin bin for a while, and listen, it's tough as an opposition leader.
verb
informal
with objectSend (a player) to a sin bin as a penalty.
判(球员)受罚
he was sin-binned for a professional foul
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However, he still enjoys playing in England and held his hands up when two of his team-mates were sin-binned during last night's game.
One solution may be to sin-bin players for a specific period of time for this type of offence.
Three players were sin-binned in a fiercely-fought contest.
Then came Green's try from Mitchell's wayward kick, but the scorer was then sin-binned for holding on in the tackle.
The second half started badly for the Boars with a player being sin-binned for 10 minutes.