athletic supporter

1. 1.

   a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise

   Synonymssupportersuspensorjockstrapjock

   Broaderprotective garmentman's clothing

Questions about athletic supporter

What does athletic supporter mean?

athletic supporter means "a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise".

What is another word for athletic supporter?

Close synonyms include supporter, suspensor, jockstrap, jock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is athletic supporter a common word?

athletic supporter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.