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minor penalty

minor penalty noun: a penalty sending the offending player to the penalty box for two minutes or (after the 1955–1956 season) the next score by the opposing team.

Noun

minor penalty (plural minor penalties)

  1. A penalty sending the offending player to the penalty box for two minutes or (after the 1955–1956 season) the next score by the opposing team.

minor penalty meaning in Kannada

minor penalty in Kannada

ಲಘು ದಂಡನೆ

Forms of minor penalty

pluralminor penalties
alternative formminor

Origin of minor penalty

Distinguished from the longer major penalties when those were established for the 1923–1924 season.

Words formed from minor penalty

  • bench minor
  • double minor
  • triple minor

Questions about minor penalty

What does minor penalty mean?
Minor penalty means a penalty sending the offending player to the penalty box for two minutes or (after the 1955–1956 season) the next score by the opposing team.
What is minor penalty in Kannada?
Minor penalty in Kannada is ಲಘು ದಂಡನೆ. See Minor penalty meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is minor penalty?
Minor penalty is a noun.
What is the plural of minor penalty?
The plural of minor penalty is minor penalties.

Words near minor penalty in the dictionary

  1. minor order
  2. minor orders
  3. minor parties
  4. minor party
  5. minor penalties
  6. minor penalty
  7. minor piece
  8. minor pieces
  9. minor planet
  10. minor planets
  11. minor point

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Adapted from Wiktionary: minor penalty (page history and authors); minor penalty (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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