crotch

1. 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.
2. Either the male or female genitalia. (slang) · He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.
3. The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place. · There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree.
4. In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
5. 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".

Plural crotches