sin bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sin bins
form: sin-bin
form: sinbin
Etymology: From sin + bin. Apparently Australian. Usage of the panel van sense is influenced by the US trade name.
Senses: examples: text: Tommy Parker had propped Sporting World against a waterjug. He said “I see Max de Woppa spent three minutes in the sin bin.”
ref: 1985, Nicholas Mosely, Accident, →ISBN, page 27:
text: 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.
ref: 2005, Rachel K. Gibson, The Trouble With Valentine's Day, page 46:
text: 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.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play following an infringement of the rules of the game.
examples: text: I spent a week in the sin-bin for that one.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 116:
text: 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).
ref: 2001, Kersti Seksel, Training Your Cat, page 33:
text: Where habitual offenders remain, we can be sure that any sin-bin will not be populated by members of any one racial group alone.
ref: 2004, Richard Giles, Creating Uncommon Worship: Transforming the Liturgy of the Eucharist, page 88:
text: 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.
text: 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.
glosses: A place for transgressors, a limbo; a place of confinement or self-isolation after (or in order to avert) transgressions; a state of disgrace.
topics: education
glosses: A referral unit or special class for frequent truants.
examples: 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.
glosses: Synonym of fuck truck: A panel van with a mattress in the back.
synonyms: word: fuck truck
extra: A panel van with a mattress in the back
Synonyms: sense: area for confinement of players while suspended
word: penalty box
Related terms: red card
yellow card