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Crotches

Crotch \Crotch\ (kr[o^]ch; 224), n.; pl. Crotches (kr[o^]ch"[e^]z). [Cf. Crotchet, Crutch.]

  1. The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree. more specifically, the space on the human torso between the two legs; also, the corresponding part between the legs of a pair of pants, which is in contact with the crotch of the wearer; as, pants with a tight crotch have become very popular.

  2. (Naut.) A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.
    --Totten.

  3. (Billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table. See Crotched, below.

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crotches

n. (plural of crotch English)

Usage examples of "crotches".

Likewise, her other hand wedged itself between the intimate contact of their crotches and found his testicles.

As their crotches met once again, not in fleshy thuds, but with tender insistence.

Cooper and Schoedsack instantly covered their crotches with their hands.

One was Latino, the other black, and they were dressed identically: baggy jeans with crotches that drooped to their knees, muscle shirts, and doo-rags on their heads.

We never devoted the attention to spitting, or to tugging at our armpits and crotches, that is the essential expression of nervousness in the adult sport.

It was a summer of wet bathing suits drying from the radio aerial of Noah's car-and the closest I came to sex was the view I had of the crotches of various girls' bathing suits, snapping in the wind that whipped past Noah's car.

Yeisk and Zhurbenko glanced down at their crotches and saw tiny red dots of light dancing on their clothing right near their genitals.

But he realized that all the water folk were thin and hairless, except for their heads and crotches, so of course they regarded such qualities as esthetic.