Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

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.
2. (slang, euphemistic) Either the male or female genitalia.
3. The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place.
4. (billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
5. (typography) 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".
6. (transitive) To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to.
7. (transitive, Western US, timber industry, historical) To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.
8. (transitive) To shoplift or smuggle by hiding between one's thighs or in one's underwear.

Example Sentences

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 oneself in. Over the next eighteen months we sported our oaks with great frequency.

He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.

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; […]

Tarzan wondered if he would stalk him to his cabin door. 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. But he knew just the tree and the most comfortable crotch, if necessity demanded that he sleep out.

to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots

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 .

Word Forms

• crotches
• crotching
• crotched

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