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sin bin
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sin bin
n
1. (Team Sports, other than specified) Slang (in ice hockey, etc.) an area off the field of play where a player who has committed a foul can be sent to sit for a specified period
2. (Social Science / Education) Brit informal a special unit on a separate site from a school that disruptive schoolchildren attend until they can be reintegrated into their normal classes
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sin bin
n (Ice Hockey inf) → Strafbank f; in the sin binauf der Strafbank


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PATRICK VIEIRA would not have been sent off against Liverpool had sin-bins been introduced into the Premiership, according to referee David Elleray.
However, sin-bins had been introduced for the knock-out phases, so the referee, who awarded 49 penalties in the game, was proved correct.
 
 
 
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