body guard

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   accompany and protect from physical harm

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Questions about body guard

What does body guard mean?

body guard means "accompany and protect from physical harm".

Is body guard a common word?

body guard 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.