penalty box
- Hockey a small, enclosed area just outside the wall surrounding the rink, where a player removed from the game must wait as a penalty
- Soccer the large rectangular area directly in front of each goal where a foul committed by a defensive player may result in a penalty
See penalty box in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun An area to the side of an ice-hockey rink in which penalized players wait out the time of their penalties.
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