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Crotch

//kɹɑt͡ʃ// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.

    "Every mile they rode their crotches felt worse saddlepain."

  2. 2
    external sex organ wordnet
  3. 3
    Either the male or female genitalia. euphemistic, slang

    "He cringed at being kicked in the crotch."

  4. 4
    the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk wordnet
  5. 5
    The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place.

    "There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree."

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  1. 6
    the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches wordnet
  2. 7
    In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
  3. 8
    The open counter (negative space) formed by two downward strokes that meet at an internal acute angle, potentially above a vertex, as in the letters "V" and "Y".
Verb
  1. 1
    To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to. transitive

    "to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots"

  2. 2
    To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it. US, Western, historical, transitive
  3. 3
    To shoplift or smuggle by hiding between one's thighs or in one's underwear. transitive

    "I remember crotching a bottle of Corona out of a pub on Commercial Drive and nursing it with Cancer as we stumbled towards my car ."

  4. 4
    To hit in the crotch (genital region). transitive

    "Flair and Paisley flirted until Daffney crotched David from behind with a baseball bat."

  5. 5
    To secure (the boom) to the boom crotch (a forked pole). transitive

    "[…] when she begins to go astern, let go the anchor, brail up the spanker, crotch the boom, haul taut the guys, light-to the cable, as fast as she will take it, until a sufficient scope is out, when stopper."

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  1. 6
    To hang (a rope) over a crotch in a tree so that the ends hang down from opposite sides. transitive

    "The safety sling should be tied immediately after the climber has crotched his rope as high and as close to the trunk as possible."

  2. 7
    To remove overgrown wool from around the eyes of. transitive

    "Cattle and sheep purchased by contract for a specific consignee at point of origin, and moving on through billing to points beyond Denver, may be stopped at Denver to be weighed, classified, sorted, inspected, delivered, tagged, faced, crotched, and/or diverted for a charge of $7.50 per car or per truck in lieu of yardage."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Of disputed origin; two possibilities seem likely: * From Middle English croche, variant of crucche (“crutch”); compare crook. * From Middle English croche, variant of crouche (“cross, crozier”).

Etymology 2

Of disputed origin; two possibilities seem likely: * From Middle English croche, variant of crucche (“crutch”); compare crook. * From Middle English croche, variant of crouche (“cross, crozier”).

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