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passive box

passive box noun: a defensive formation that a shorthanded team may use during a penalty kill, whereby four players remain in a box formation in front of their goaltender.

Noun

passive box (plural passive boxes)

  1. A defensive formation that a shorthanded team may use during a penalty kill, whereby four players remain in a box formation in front of their goaltender.

Forms of passive box

pluralpassive boxes

Questions about passive box

What does passive box mean?
Passive box means a defensive formation that a shorthanded team may use during a penalty kill, whereby four players remain in a box formation in front of their goaltender.
What part of speech is passive box?
Passive box is a noun.
What is the plural of passive box?
The plural of passive box is passive boxes.

Words near passive box in the dictionary

  1. passive armor
  2. passive armour
  3. passive armours
  4. passive attack
  5. passive attacks
  6. passive box
  7. passive boxes
  8. passive defense
  9. passive defenses
  10. passive euthanasia
  11. passive gravitational mass

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