face guard

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   face mask consisting of a strong wire mesh on the front of football helmets

   Broaderface mask

   Part offootball helmet

Questions about face guard

What does face guard mean?

face guard means "face mask consisting of a strong wire mesh on the front of football helmets".

Is face guard a common word?

face 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.