nipple shield

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   a rubber or plastic shield to protect the nipples of nursing women

   Broadershield

Questions about nipple shield

What does nipple shield mean?

nipple shield means "a rubber or plastic shield to protect the nipples of nursing women".

Is nipple shield a common word?

nipple shield 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.