drop-crotch

A style of pruning in which an upper limb is cut back to the next lower lateral.

If a drop-crotch cut will remove too much foliage from a limb, the limb either should be removed entirely, or not cut at all.

A style of trousers with extra room in the crotch region, such as in harem pants.

I tried on a pair of drop-crotch pants one day because they were trendy and I thought maybe, just maybe, I could rock them.

To prune using the drop-crotch technique.

Sometimes restoring a top or drop-crotching or even selectively removing certain branches will achieve the same result that the client had in mind — they may call it topping but in reality what I do is far different.