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shin guard

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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 guard

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby shin guard

shingle oak, shingles, shingling, shingly, Shingon, shin guard, shining, shining cuckoo, shinju, shinkin, shinleaf
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How to use shin guard in a sentence

  • Through the black woods rang the sound of a sword clanging against a steel shin guard.

    Men Called Him Master|Elwyn Allen Smith

  • The secutor was barely scratched, but his blood trickled down his shin-guard and he was limping.

    The Unwilling Vestal|Edward Lucas White
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