rubber room
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cell lined with cushions used for confinement of a mentally disturbed person.
noun
Especially in New York City, a temporary workplace assigned to a teacher who is not permitted to teach in a classroom because he or she is under disciplinary review.
Example Sentences
- ""If you kept on worrying about being killed you could end up in a rubber room.""
- "Barry is... well, what? Borderline autistic and obsessive-compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get him a one-way ticket to the rubber room."
- "How is it that the Virginia Tech shooter Seung Cho and Adam Lanza weren't in a rubber room instead of in a classroom shooting people?"
- "The film briefly visits a “rubber room” in New York City where idle teachers accused of misconduct wait months and sometimes years for hearings while drawing full salaries."
- "The findings dropped the day before the one-year anniversary of his idling away in the rubber room, where teachers await disciplinary hearings."