Crevice
noun, verb, slang ·2 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
"[T]he mouse / Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, / Or from the crevice peer'd about."
- 2 a long narrow cleft wordnet
- 3 The vagina. slang
"[…] howling like a wolf as I penetrated her harder and harder as she asked for more and more and moved her legs to the left and to the right so I could go deeper and deeper into her crevice."
- 4 a long narrow depression in a surface wordnet
- 1 To crack; to flaw.
"they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Postures and […]crevice the Wall"
Example
More examples"My phone fell into the crevice between the two seats."
Etymology
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
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