crash helmet
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2.3
- noun
- /kræʃ ˈhɛlmɪt/
- UK
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casco de protección
- Before riding my bicycle, I always make sure to wear my crash helmet for safety.
- wear a crash helmet
- put on a crash helmet
Examples
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Fasten your seat belts, put on your crash helmets...
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I saved a special crash helmet just for you.
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Is that the crash helmet?
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Better have your crash helmet.
Blog text (32) -
But if you go outwith him, make sure you wear a crash helmet.
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Fasten your seat belts, and put on your crash helmets because here he comes...
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"It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets.
Blog text (24) -
Cones, papa-stopper, jimmy hats, doggy bags, oven mit, crash helmet, condoms!
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He lowered a battered crash helmet onto the small table, and outside, through the picture windows of the restaurant, Pat could see the red-and-white striped Kawasaki Ninja bike that had clearly been his transport.
Fiction book (1990) -
He bought a new crash helmet to protect himself while riding his motorcycle.
Synonyms
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1.0
A hard or padded hat that protects the head from injury
A protective helmet people wear when they ride a motorcycle to protect their head
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Morphology
The meaning 'a helmet worn to protect the head in a crash' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'crash' (an accident or collision) with 'helmet' (a protective head covering). This straightforward compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and should be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Crash helmet comes from the simple image of a helmet used for a crash: riders put on a helmet to stop head injury if their bike or motorcycle crashes. So the phrase now means the padded headwear people wear to 'protect' the head in an 'accident'.