thigh pad

1. 1.

   protective garment consisting of a pad worn over the thighs by football players

   Broaderprotective garment

Questions about thigh pad

What does thigh pad mean?

thigh pad means "protective garment consisting of a pad worn over the thighs by football players".

Is thigh pad a common word?

thigh 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.