crotch down
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably originally an eggcorn for crouch down.
Verb
[edit]crotch down (third-person singular simple present crotches down, present participle crotching down, simple past and past participle crotched down)
- To crouch.
- 2009, Loon, 100 Meters, page 9:
- He crotched down in the blocks to check for comfort before rising up out of them at half speed and trotting a few meters up the track.
- 2017, Richard Smith, God Bless These Boys, page 69:
- Carter grabbed the girl, just as she slid off the horse – everyone else crotched down and aimed their muskets at the trees.
- 2019, Mary Kay Abbott, Heartache and Hope:
- He was now crotched down on his knees, diligently digging at a plant, a trowel now in his hand.