Definition of penalty box in US English:
penalty box
nounˈpenəltē bäksˈpɛnəlti bɑks
Ice Hockey An enclosure alongside the rink where players who have been assessed penalties must remain while they serve out their penalties.
Example sentencesExamples
- Both teams had high expectations coming into the season, yet have struggled because they can't stay out of the penalty box.
- He deals only in goals, and still spends hours practising his shooting with both feet from all areas of the penalty box.
- The two combatants then trundle off to the penalty box and the ‘real’ game resumes.
- I'm very aggressive and very emotional, so I think I've done a good job staying out of the penalty box and taking aggressive penalties.
- But they threw away a number of scoring opportunities in the penalty box area and wasted a number of stirring goal chances.