hip pad

1. 1.

   protective garment consisting of a pad worn by football and hockey players

   Broaderprotective garment

Questions about hip pad

What does hip pad mean?

hip pad means "protective garment consisting of a pad worn by football and hockey players".

Is hip pad a common word?

hip pad is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.