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The bouncer between your skull and the things that want to remove it.
means A protective piece of equipment worn around the throat and back of the neck to shield it from impact, cuts, or injury.
from A plain compound of two old English workhorses: "neck," from Old English "hnecca" (the back of the neck), and "guard," which arrived through Old French "garde" from a Germanic root tied to "warden" and "ward" — the idea of watching over and keeping safe. Put them together and you get exactly what it says: a thing that wards the neck, a phrasing that fits everything from medieval armor's gorget to a hockey goalie's throat protector.
- medieval root
- Knights called throat armor a gorget, worn for centuries
- goalie staple
- Mandated after a skate sliced a player's neck
- snake protection
- Some hikers wear them against tree-fall vipers
- name origin
- Gorget comes from French gorge, meaning throat
shock doctor neck guard — sports protection equipment used in football, hockey, and combat sports across north america