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penalty box

• in hockey or box lacrosse, a special bench outside the playing area, where penalized players are required to sit out the time of their banishment from the game.

  See also: sin bin  

  • 1931  . . . two Vancouver players [were] in the penalty box. . . .
  • 1963  Alex Faulkner was in the penalty box serving a major penalty for high-sticking Montreal's Ralph Backstrom and drawing blood.
  • 1966  Finegan . . . entered the penalty box and threw a glove on the playing surface.