SHIN GUARD Definition & Meaning

shin guard

noun

Sports.

a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.

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Origin of shin guard¹

First recorded in 1900–05

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To ensure the test was novel and challenging, they had 4-to-5-year-olds dress up in hockey gear -- two shin guards and a chest guard.

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Roan jumped around in a hot pink and electric blue lucha libre wrestler’s outfit made of latex, with iridescent leather accessories including a belt, mask, shin guards and wrist and upper arm cuffs.

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He’s armed with a padded glove, mask, helmet, chest protector, throat protector and shin guards.

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They played violin and attended the prestigious Purcell School as a kid, turning up on the first day in a football uniform complete with shin guards.

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Harper started to remove his shin guard when third base umpire Ángel Hernández called out the slugger.

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