wrist pad

1. 1.

   protective garment consisting of a pad worn by football players

   Broaderprotective garment

Questions about wrist pad

What does wrist pad mean?

wrist pad means "protective garment consisting of a pad worn by football players".

Is wrist pad a common word?

wrist 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.