sin bin
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play following an infringement of the rules of the game.
noun
A place for transgressors, a limbo; a place of confinement or self-isolation after (or in order to avert) transgressions; a state of disgrace.
noun
Synonym of fuck truck: A panel van with a mattress in the back.
Australian usage; American usage; Colloquial
verb
to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule in a game
Example Sentences
- "Tommy Parker had propped Sporting World against a waterjug. He said “I see Max de Woppa spent three minutes in the sin bin.”"
- "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."
- "I spent a week in the sin-bin for that one."
- "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)."
- "Where habitual offenders remain, we can be sure that any sin-bin will not be populated by members of any one racial group alone."
Etymology
From sin + bin. Apparently Australian. Usage of the panel van sense is influenced by the US trade name.
Usage
- British usage
- Colloquial
- Australian usage
- American usage