Other forms: bodyguards
A bodyguard is the strong person paid to keep someone famous safe. Hire a bodyguard, the bodyguard stepped in, a personal bodyguard.
The job is mostly planning: routes, exits and crowd lines are worked out in advance, and a good one is never seen doing anything dramatic. Size matters less than attention. Note that the compound is body plus guard, where body means the person themselves, as in somebody and nobody.
1nounbodyguardA person paid to protect somebody.
“The singer walked through the crowd surrounded by bodyguards.”
bodyguard is a protector.
Body plus guard. Body here means the person, as it does in somebody and nobody.
From body + guard.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA