crotch

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.

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.

Either the male or female genitalia.

He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.

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

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; […]

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

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".

To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to.

to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots

To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.

To shoplift or smuggle by hiding between one's thighs or in one's underwear.

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 .

I crotched them. I put them in my underwear.

To hit in the crotch (genital region).

Flair and Paisley flirted until Daffney crotched David from behind with a baseball bat.

Pillman gets crotched on the top rope and barely kicks out of a superplex.

To secure (the boom) to the boom crotch (a forked pole).

[…] when she begins to go astern, let go the anchor, brail up the spanker, crotch the boom, haul taut the guys, light-to the cable, as fast as she will take it, until a sufficient scope is out, when stopper.

I always crotched the boom while reefing, and made an easy job of it, the boat, in the meantime, taking perfect care of herself on any point of sailing, under jib and jigger.