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crotch

a. the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
b. the human external genitals or the genital area
c. the corresponding part of a pair of trousers, pants, etc.
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

crotch

[kräch]
(science and technology)
The angular form made by the parting of two branches, legs, or members.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

crotch

The point where a tree branch joins the trunk.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Oldman knew that the lecture on Haydn that sparked Burney's anger was given at the Royal Institution in January 1805, but he was unable to locate it among the well over one thousand pages of Crotch's manuscript lecture notes preserved at the Norfolk Record Office (NRO).
Fifth place was a two-way tie between two similar bands, the Fairfield High band and Crotch Rot."
Reared horse reveals tightening secret: crotch block wedge held with bolt and wing nut.
It uses the same sets and motions that go with the high crotch and single-leg takedowns.
You are staring at a crotch. Fragmented by the camera's inert pressure, this is a body robbed of any sense of boundary, caught--like the trunk of an upended tree--at one of the sites of its own splitting, displaying the shadowy fold of zipper and seam as displaced echoes of the body's own rupture.
According to a new survey, more than a third of men are happy to admit they make an effort to get rid of hair in their crotch area, the Daily Mail reported.
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