(sports) An area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play following an infringement of the rules of the game.
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(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.
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(UK, education, colloquial) A referral unit or special class for frequent truants.
2012: Phil Gifford, Rivals: Sports Greatest Battles, HarperCollins Australia, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Yv8b0BeIOB4C&pg=PT299&lpg=PT299&dq=%22sin+bin%22|%22sin+bins%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=z…
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