penalty box

1. 1.

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

   Broaderbench

   Part ofice hockey rink

   ice hockey

Questions about penalty box

What does penalty box mean?

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

Is penalty box a common word?

penalty box is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.