crotch
Because it is a word with a single syllable, crotch is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofcrotch
- The area where something forks or branches, a ramification takes place.
Example: "There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree."
- 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.
Example: "Every mile they rode their crotches felt worse saddlepain."
- Either the male or female genitalia.
Example: "He cringed at being kicked in the crotch."
- 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.
Example: "to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots"
- (logging, western US) To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.
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