shin guard

1. 1.

   a stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins

   Synonymsshinpad

   Broaderprotective garment

Questions about shin guard

What does shin guard mean?

shin guard means "a stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins".

What is another word for shin guard?

Close synonyms include shinpad. 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 shin guard a common word?

shin 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.