pad up
verb1
Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To put on batting pads preparatory to taking the field to bat.
- Normally only one batsman is padded up and Dean Jones was listed to bat next.1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 201:
2
American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To put on pads to ready oneself to play American football; to play for a team.
- He padded up for the Bears in 1997.
3
Slang To put on a diaper.