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PENALTY BOX

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• PENALTY BOX (noun)
The noun PENALTY BOX has 1 sense:

1. (ice hockey) an enclosed bench to the side of an ice-hockey rink for players who are serving time penalties

Familiarity information: PENALTY BOX used as a noun is very rare.

• PENALTY BOX (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(ice hockey) an enclosed bench to the side of an ice-hockey rink for players who are serving time penalties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("penalty box" is a kind of...):

bench (a long seat for more than one person)

Domain category:

hockey; hockey game; ice hockey (a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks)

Holonyms ("penalty box" is a part of...):

ice hockey rink; ice-hockey rink (an ice rink for playing ice hockey)

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