lines

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a punishment for school students in which a sentence has to be written repeatedly:

She got 200 lines for swearing at her teacher.

We had to stay behind after school and write lines.

We were given lines for minor misdeeds.

You can't leave this room until you have finished your lines.

If you answer back once, you get 50 lines and if you do it again, you get 100.