Sekirov Dictionary

crotch

UK /kɹɒt͡ʃ/US /kɹɑt͡ʃ/

verb 7
noun 5
forms 3
phrases 1

verb7

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(informal) To hit in the crotch (genital region).
- Flair and Paisley flirted until Daffney crotched David from behind with a baseball bat. — 2002
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(slang) To shoplift or smuggle by hiding between one's thighs or in one's underwear.
- 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 . — 2008
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To secure (the boom) to the boom crotch (a forked pole).
- I always crotched the boom while reefing, and made an easy job of it, the boat, in the meantime, taking perfect care of herself on any point of sailing, under jib and jigger. — 1907
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To hang (a rope) over a crotch in a tree so that the ends hang down from opposite sides.
- The safety sling should be tied immediately after the climber has crotched his rope as high and as close to the trunk as possible. — 1935
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To remove overgrown wool from around the eyes of.
- He was meant to be crotching the sheep that day, and crotching, as is well known in rural circles, is very thirsty work. — 2013
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To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to.
- to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots
(US, historical) To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.

noun5

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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.
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(euphemistic) Either the male or female genitalia.
- He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.
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The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place.
- There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree.
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".
In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.

forms

crotched · crotching · crotches

Phrases with crotch

crotch down
To crouch.

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