football helmet

1. 1.

   a padded helmet with a face mask to protect the head of football players

   Broaderhelmet

   Partsface guard

Questions about football helmet

What does football helmet mean?

football helmet means "a padded helmet with a face mask to protect the head of football players".

Is football helmet a common word?

football helmet 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.