Meaning

5 senses
  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.

    Every mile they rode their crotches felt worse saddlepain.

    Schritt, Leistengegend, Zwickel

    проме́жностьproméžnostʹ, пахpax

    пахви́наpaxvýna

    the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk

  2. (euphemistic, slang)Either the male or female genitalia.

    He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.

  3. The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place.

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

    Gabelung, Verzweigung, Astgabel

    разви́лкаrazvílka, разветвле́ниеrazvetvlénije, ви́лкаvílka

    відгалу́женняvidhalúžennja, розгалу́женняrozhalúžennja, роздорі́жжяrozdorížžja

  4. In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.

  5. 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".

    the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches

Examples

14 sentences
  1. He's always touching his crotch in front of others.

  2. Sewing the crotch of the teddy bear was fiddly.

  3. My crotch hurts from riding the bicycle too much.

  4. What shape should I cut the crotch for the trousers?

  5. He was rubbing his crotch against my butt on the bus.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
area of a person’s body:
area where something forks:
Русский
By meaning 2
area of a person’s body:
area where something forks:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
area of a person’s body:
area where something forks:

Origin

Of disputed origin; two possibilities seem likely:

Of disputed origin; two possibilities seem likely:

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Forms

plural: crotches
Singularcrotch
Pluralcrotches

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

15 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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