crotch vs digression

crotch

noun
  • The area where something forks or branches, a ramification takes place. 

  • Either the male or female genitalia. 

  • 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". 

  • 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. 

  • In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table. 

verb
  • To shoplift or smuggle by hiding between one's thighs or in one's underwear. 

  • To hang (a rope) over a crotch in a tree so that the ends hang down from opposite sides. 

  • To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it. 

  • To hit in the crotch (genital region). 

  • To remove overgrown wool from around the eyes of. 

  • To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to. 

  • To secure (the boom) to the boom crotch (a forked pole). 

digression

noun
  • An elongation, a deflection or deviation from a mean position or expected path. 

  • An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing. 

  • The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect. 

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