sin bin
See also: sin-bin
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom sin + bin. Apparently Australian. Usage of the panel van sense is influenced by the US trade name.
Pronunciation
editAudio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
edit- (sports) An area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play following an infringement of the rules of the game.
- 2005, Rachel K. Gibson, The Trouble With Valentine's Day, page 46:
- 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.
- 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.
- (figurative) A place for transgressors, a limbo; a place of confinement or self-isolation after (or in order to avert) transgressions; a state of disgrace.
- 2001, Kersti Seksel, Training Your Cat, page 33:
- Punishment can be positive or negative, but both decrease the chances of the behaviour recurring. Positive punishment adds something unpleasant: yelling at the cat, for example. Negative punishment removes something pleasant: your company, for example, by putting the cat in the sin bin (see Chapter 9).
- 2004, Richard Giles, Creating Uncommon Worship: Transforming the Liturgy of the Eucharist, page 88:
- Where habitual offenders remain, we can be sure that any sin-bin will not be populated by members of any one racial group alone.
- 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.
- (UK, education, colloquial) A referral unit or special class for frequent truants.
- (US, Australia, colloquial) Synonym of fuck truck: A panel van with a mattress in the back.
- 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.
- 1972 September, What′s New: Rolling pad, Popular Science, page 70,
Synonyms
edit- (area for confinement of players while suspended): penalty box
- (place for transgressors):
Translations
editsports: an area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play
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figuratively: a place for transgressors, a limbo
See also
editVerb
editsin bin (third-person singular simple present sin bins, present participle sin binning, simple past and past participle sin binned)
- (sports, usually in passive voice) to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule in a game
Translations
editsports: to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule
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