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"ref": "2015, Sue Irwin, “A Dangerous Game”, in Safety Stars: Players who fought to make the hard-hitting game of professional hockey safer, Toronto, Ont.: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., page 14",
"text": "Jock or Jill? More girls are playing hockey now than ever before. Sadly, big business hasn’t kept up. Some companies are just beginning to make hockey pants, pelvic protectors, and skates for girls.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pelvic protector, a woman’s equivalent of a man’s jock."
],
"links": [
[
"pelvic",
"pelvic"
],
[
"protector",
"protector"
],
[
"jock",
"jock"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/d͡ʒɪl/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪl"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-Jill.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c9/En-us-Jill.ogg/En-us-Jill.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/En-us-Jill.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "pelvic protector",
"word": "jillstrap"
}
],
"word": "jill"
}
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