groin /ɡɹɔɪn/noun 6verb 4forms 3 noun6 •The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick. — 2011 •The area adjoining this fold or depression.He pulled a muscle in his groin. •(euphemistic) The genitals.He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain. •An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.Old rail and timber groynes will be erected along the beach to trap shingle moved by coastwise drift, and to rebuild the protection to the toe of the embankment. — 1959 •The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults •The surface formed by two such vaults. verb4 •(informal) To deliver a blow to the genitals of.In the scrum he somehow got groined.She groined him and ran to the car. •To build or furnish with a groin or groins. •(literary) To hollow out; to excavate.Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined. — 1918 •To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur. formsgroined · groining · groins
