crossing guard

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   someone who helps people (especially children) at a traffic crossing

   Broadertraffic cop

   Narrowerlollipop lady

Questions about crossing guard

What does crossing guard mean?

crossing guard means "someone who helps people (especially children) at a traffic crossing".

Is crossing guard a common word?

crossing 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.