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Pool patrons' protector
Answer for the clue "Pool patrons' protector ", 9 letters:
lifeguard
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also life-guard , 1640s, "bodyguard of soldiers," from life (n.) + guard (n.), translating German leibgarde . Sense of "person paid to watch over bathers" is by 1896.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lifeguard ( Heather Cameron ) is a fictional character , a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character is primarily associated with the X-Men . Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Salvador Larroca , she ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A guard of the life or person; a guard that attends a prince or other person; a bodyguard. 2 (context chiefly US English) An attendant, usually an expert swimmer, employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning at a body of water. 3 A lifesaver. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents [syn: lifesaver ]
Usage examples of lifeguard.
He was thrown out and forbidden to return for the rest of the summer, and a bikinied lifeguard named Shelley came to me while I was holding my nose, put her hand on my arm, and asked if I was hurt.
David Zielinsky walked out of the Theatrical and onto Short Vincent, left onto East Sixth, right onto Euclid Avenue, heading to Terminal Tower, where he intended to take the streetcar home, heave rubber-banded newspapers onto stoops all over Old Brooklyn, eat the dinner Aunt Betty would serve, and after that meet up with his buddies and see if that redheaded lifeguard was still over at Brookside, if she even existed, and be home by dark.
David never found out for sure about the lifeguard at Brookside Pool, though he would always have a thing about redheaded women.
French public institution, terribly overcharged with functionaires, in this case officious, functionary lifeguards.
When one of the Haulover lifeguards tried to shield one of the girls, he was kicked repeatedly.
Muscular and darkly tanned, Makimo sat atop a steel lifeguard tower as his eyes swept the water beyond the beach at Hanauma Bay, a wondrous, protected near-circle of everchanging blue and green sea off the island of Oahu.
For a long time, the lifeguards have been trying to get someone to pay attention.
Part-timers are hired to fill out the shifts, though many are not trained as emergency medical technicians, as the full-time lifeguards usually are.
While the park is much more crowded than it was in 1975, there are five fewer full-time lifeguards now.
Today the lifeguards meet with county parks officials to pleadagainfor help in making the beach safer.
The boyfriend was a lifeguard who possessed the essential imperviousness to boredom that all lifeguards must have.
Remember, the Special Group is spread out in garrisons all over Kingdom, and by the time any of those garrisons can reinforce the Lifeguards, the battle will be over.
In the swimming pool the water was clean and blue, flanked by high white lifeguard perches, broken by wooden buoys that bobbed on a twist of thick rope that had been strung from one side to the other between the deep end and the shallow waters where the babies and nonswimmers could safely splash.
Behind him, Romer saw several shooters of the Lifeguards crowded in the hallway.
Lifeguards officially closed the beach on three days, but plenty of idiotic showoffs hopped in anyway.