rubber room

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noun

Informal. a room padded with foam rubber for the confinement of a violent mentally ill person.

Origin of rubber room

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First recorded in 1975–80

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How to use rubber room in a sentence

He spent three days in a rubber room wearing a plastic smock before returning.
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Like New York City schoolteachers consigned to the “rubber room,” Lerner cannot be easily dismissed.
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