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.
Origin of shin guard
First recorded in 1900–05
Words nearby shin guard
shimmer,
shimmery,
shimmy,
shimonoseki,
shin,
shin guard,
shin splints,
shinar,
shinbone,
shindig,
shindy
Example sentences from the Web for shin guard
The secutor was barely scratched, but his blood trickled down his shin-guard and he was limping.
The Unwilling Vestal |Edward Lucas White