catcher's mask

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   a mask to protect the face of the catcher in baseball

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Questions about catcher's mask

What does catcher's mask mean?

catcher's mask means "a mask to protect the face of the catcher in baseball".

Is catcher's mask a common word?

catcher's mask 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.