(in sport) a box or bench to which offending players can be sent for a period as a penalty during a game, especially in ice hockey:his cross-check earned him two minutes in the sin bin
British a place where offenders are sent for detention, punishment, or rehabilitation:sin bins for disruptive prisonersa child removed to a sin bin
verb
(sin-bin) [with object] send (a player) to a sin bin as a penalty:he was sin-binned for a professional foul
