penalty box

noun

: an area alongside an ice hockey rink to which penalized players are confined for the duration of their penalty

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In the 58th minute, Shrader received the ball from left back Selma Bacha a handful of yards outside the penalty box before sending in an inviting left-footed cross to Heaps. Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025 Madrid also seems to have unearthed a gem in Gonzalo Garcia, whom Herrera thinks can be Madrid’s penalty box poacher. Vitas Carosella, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025 Townsend’s shot from outside the penalty box late in the second half of overtime lifted the Bulldogs to a 2-1 victory against then-No. 4 Chesterton and ended a losing streak of eight games in the series dating to 2017. Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025 Seventeen of those shots came from inside the penalty box, too. Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 10 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for penalty box

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of penalty box was in 1907

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“Penalty box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/penalty%20box. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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