head restraint

1. 1.

   a cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash

   Synonymsheadrest

   Broadercushion

   Part ofcar seat

Questions about head restraint

What does head restraint mean?

head restraint means "a cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash".

What is another word for head restraint?

Close synonyms include headrest. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is head restraint a common word?

head restraint 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.