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sin-bins

sin-bins is the plural of sin-bin.

Meaning of sin-bin

Verb

sin-bin (third-person singular simple present sin-bins, present participle sin-binning, simple past and past participle sin-binned)

  1. To send (a player) to the sin bin, to temporarily dismiss from the playing field.
    • That is how it stayed until the break and just when Wales needed to keep their composure, tight-head prop Mitchell was sin-binned for killing the ball at a ruck and Flood kicked the penalty.2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC

Questions about sin-bins

What is sin-bins the plural of?
Sin-bins is the plural of sin-bin.

Words near sin-bins in the dictionary

  1. sin taxes
  2. sin-bin
  3. sin-binned
  4. sin-binning
  5. sin-binnings
  6. sin-bins
  7. sin-eater
  8. sin-eaters
  9. sin-free
  10. sin-ridden
  11. sin-taxed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sin-bins (page history and authors); sin-bin (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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