noun

• (slang, euphemistic) Either the male or female genitalia.
  "He cringed at being kicked in the crotch."
• (billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
• (typography) 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".

verb

• (transitive) To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to.
  "to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots"
• (transitive, Western US, timber industry, historical) To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.
• (transitive) 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 ."
• (transitive) To hit in the crotch (genital region).
  "Flair and Paisley flirted until Daffney crotched David from behind with a baseball bat."