chest protector

1. 1.

   protective garment consisting of a pad worn in baseball by catchers and by football players

   Broaderprotective garment

Questions about chest protector

What does chest protector mean?

chest protector means "protective garment consisting of a pad worn in baseball by catchers and by football players".

Is chest protector a common word?

chest protector 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.