crotch
UK/kɹɒt͡ʃ//kɹɑt͡ʃ/
crotch noun: 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.
Noun
crotch (plural crotches)
- 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.
- We were turned at a slight angle to each other, our shoulders touching and I put my hand on his crotch. Miles seemed to be expecting it. He chuckled, took a pair of compasses and jammed them into the door above the latch. This was called ‘sporting the oak’ and was the recognized way of locking...1984, Hallam Tennyson, “Needful Parts”, in The Haunted Mind: An Autobiography, London: André Deutsch, →ISBN, page 46
- Either the male or female genitalia.
- He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.
- The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place.
- There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree.
- In one crotch of the old peach-tree, just by the wall, sat a second cousin of the little eight-eyed fellow we had left up stairs, with her web spread on the most geometric model, and a young and promising family of spiders and spideresses practising gymnastics in the fairy rigging; […]1836 September, J. H. P., “Spiders and their Moral”, in The Western Messenger; Devoted to Religion and Literature, volume II, number 2, Louisville, Ky.: […] [T]he Western Unitarian Association...
- In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
- 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
crotch (third-person singular simple present crotches, present participle crotching, simple past and past participle crotched)
- To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to.
- to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots
- To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.
- 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, Patrick Blennerhassett, Monument, page 182
- I crotched them. I put them in my underwear.2014, Ryan Patrick Sullivan, Mrs. O'Leary's Cow, page 107
- To hit in the crotch (genital region).
- Flair and Paisley flirted until Daffney crotched David from behind with a baseball bat.2002, Pat McNeill, The Tables All Were Broken=, page 4
- Pillman gets crotched on the top rope and barely kicks out of a superplex.2015, James Dixon, Bob Dahlstrom, Benjamin Richardson, The Nitro Files: 1995, page 10
- To secure (the boom) to the boom crotch (a forked pole).
- […] 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.1864, William N. Brady, The Kedge-anchor, Or Young Sailor's Assistant, page 192
- 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, H.R. Stiles, “Notes on Rigging”, in Thomas Fleming Day, editor, The Rudder, volume 18, page 611
- 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, United States. National Park Service. Branch of forestry, Tree Preservation Bulletin - Issues 1-9, page 9
- If it is necessary, however, to climb directly onto the limb where the rope is crotched, the limb may be approached as shown in Figure 32.1955, A. Robert Thompson, Rope, Knots and Climbing, page 11
- To remove overgrown wool from around the eyes of.
- 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...1948 April 27, “Production and Marketing Administration”, in Federal Register, volume 13, page 2265
- My father crotched the ewes before they gave birth, and then played midwife to entire flocks once they started lambing in late April, often with the help of Rusyn peasants who knew just when to show up every year and who seemed fond of my tall, independent father.2011, Andrew Krivak ·, The Sojourn
crotch meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
crotch in Tamil
- கவட்டை
crotch in Urdu
- آنکڑا, بھال, جنگاسا, کانٹا, نوک, پیڑو
crotch in Bengali
- ক্রচ
crotch in Malayalam
- crutch, groin, lap
- നാഭി, നാഭീപ്രദേശം, കഴല, ഊരുസന്ധി, കഴലപ്പാട്, കയല
More languagesFewer languages
- crotch in Kannada
- ತುದಿನೆಡಿಗೆ
- crotch in Gujarati
- ક્રોટ કરવા માટે
- crotch in Odia
- କ୍ରଟ୍ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
- crotch in Nepali
- क्रोट गर्न
- crotch in Malay
- kelangkang
- crotch in Indonesian
- kelangkang
Examples of crotch in a sentence
- We were turned at a slight angle to each other, our shoulders touching and I put my hand on his crotch.1984, Hallam Tennyson, “Needful Parts”, in The Haunted Mind: An Autobiography, London: André Deutsch, →ISBN, page 46:
- He hoped not, for that would mean a night’s sleep curled in the crotch of a tree, and he much preferred the bed of grasses within his own abode.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 121:
- Techniques used: the woman rolled four coats and crotched them (placed them under her dress and held them between her thighs), and each of the men wrapped three coats around his midsection2020, Charles A. Sennewald, Curtis Baillie, Effective Security Management, page 136:
- Calhoun turns around and Leo is facing him and he crotched him.2013, Steven Johnson, Greg Oliver, Mike Mooneyham, The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: Heroes and Icons:
Antonyms of crotch
Forms of crotch
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | crotches |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | crotches |
| present participle | crotching |
| past participle | crotched |
| past | crotched |
Origin of crotch
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”).
Words formed from crotch
Phrases with crotch
Words that rhyme with crotch
Questions about crotch
- What does crotch mean?
- Crotch means 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.
- What is crotch in Tamil?
- Crotch in Tamil is கவட்டை. See Crotch meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use crotch in a sentence?
- We were turned at a slight angle to each other, our shoulders touching and I put my hand on his crotch.
- What part of speech is crotch?
- Crotch can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce crotch?
- Crotch is pronounced /kɹɑt͡ʃ/ (US).
- What is the plural of crotch?
- The plural of crotch is crotches.
Words near crotch in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crotch (page history and authors); crotch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crotch (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crotch (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crotch (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); crotch (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crotch (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crotch (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crotch (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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