throat protector

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   protective garment worn by hockey goalkeeper and catcher in baseball

   Broaderprotective garment

Questions about throat protector

What does throat protector mean?

throat protector means "protective garment worn by hockey goalkeeper and catcher in baseball".

Is throat protector a common word?

throat protector 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.