Crotch

Quick meaning: Crotch is a noun 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.

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.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.

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

to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots

Every mile they rode their crotches felt worse saddlepain.

Word Forms

• crotches
• crotching
• crotched

Synonyms for crotch

Depending on context, synonyms include fork, genitalia, genitals, privates.

Antonyms for crotch

Common opposites include branch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include genitals, privates, genitalia, fork, butt, arse.

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