# sin bin
## English
### Alternative forms

* sin-bin, sinbin

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

sin bin (plural sin bins)
* (sports) An area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play following an infringement of the rules of the game.
** 1985, Nicholas Mosely, Accident, →ISBN, page 27:Tommy Parker had propped Sporting World against a waterjug. He said “I see Max de Woppa spent three minutes in the sin bin.”
** 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.

#### Synonyms

* (area for confinement of players while suspended): penalty box
* (place for transgressors):

#### See also

* red card
* yellow card

### Verb

sin 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