shoulder pad

1. 1.

   protective garment consisting of a hard rounded pad worn by football players to protect their shoulders

   Broaderprotective garment

Questions about shoulder pad

What does shoulder pad mean?

shoulder pad means "protective garment consisting of a hard rounded pad worn by football players to protect their shoulders".

Is shoulder pad a common word?

shoulder pad 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.