batting helmet

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   a helmet worn by the batter in baseball

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Questions about batting helmet

What does batting helmet mean?

batting helmet means "a helmet worn by the batter in baseball".

Is batting helmet a common word?

batting helmet 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.