Wiktionary
n. a fungal infection, tinea cruris, of the groin region, usually due to the fungus (taxlink Trichophyton rubrum species noshow=1), but also ''Candida albicans'', (taxlink Trichophyton mentagrophytes species noshow=1), (taxlink Epidermophyton floccosum species noshow=1), and others.
WordNet
n. fungal infection of the groin (most common in men) [syn: tinea cruris, eczema marginatum]
Usage examples of "jock itch".
Without fungi there would be no potato blights, Dutch elm disease, jock itch, or athlete’.
Attorney and the INS and the whole fucking Justice Department's gotten religion and been, you know, bom again and now wants to fight habeases like a case of jock itch and keep custody of what's gotta be the biggest pain in the ass since the Madonna kidnapping hoax just because the arresting agent's afraid the allen's gonna get picked to pieces if we don't keep him bottled up somewhere.
He would pay dearly for having drunk two bottles of wine and passing out in his clothes, because sleeping in his clothes made his groin sweat, and an unpowdered sweaty groin gave him jock itch, the most persistent and incurable of all mankind's diseases.
Claude caught a fierce case of jock itch that crept all the way up to his armpits.
In no time, Sodium predicted, every human ailment, including acne and jock itch, would be not only incurable but fatal.
For another thing, inside five days you'd have a horrendous case of jungle-rot jock itch if you did wear 'em.