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noun
- (sports) An area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play following an infringement of the rules of the game.
- 1985: Nicholas Mosely, Accident (ISBN 0916583112)
- :Tommy Parker had propped Sporting World against a waterjug. He said "I see Max de Woppa spent three minutes in the ."
- 2005: Rachel K. Gibson or Janet Evanovich or Alexandra Barnaby, The Trouble With Valentine's Day or Metro Girl
- :Rob received a minor penalty, and as he served out his three minutes kicking back in the , Chinook's sniper, Pierre Dion, shot from the point.
- 2007:David Ellaray, quoted in The Marketing of Sport by Simon Chadwick and John G. Beech (ISBN 027368826X)
- :I would like to see the used instead of yellow cards.
- (context, figuratively) a place for transgressors, a limbo; an area in which one may confine one's self after (or in order to avert) transgressions.
- 1999: Brian Moynahan, Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned
- :It was hardly a concession. for he regarded Siberia as his , a place to take to when a cooling-off period was needed.
- (Australia) (colloquial) A panel van with a bed installed in the back.
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