sin bin

短语

n. （冰球）受罚席, 被罚下场的队员席

发音

AU

词形变化

sin bins 复数 sin bins 三单 sin binning 现在分词 sin binned 过去式 sin binned 过去分词

别名

sin-bin

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play following an infringement of the rules of the game.

    体育

    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.

  2. 2.

    A place for transgressors, a limbo; a place of confinement or self-isolation after (or in order to avert) transgressions; a state of disgrace.

    比喻

    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.

  3. 3.

    A referral unit or special class for frequent truants.

    英国 非正式 教育
  4. 4.

    Synonym of fuck truck: A panel van with a mattress in the back.

    澳大利亚 美国 非正式

    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.

v.
  1. 1.

    to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule in a game

    体育

词源

From sin + bin. Apparently Australian. Usage of the panel van sense is influenced by the US trade name.

来源：wiktionary