crutch
IPA: krˈʌtʃ
noun
- A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
- Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
- A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
- A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
- (nautical) A knee, or piece of knee timber.
- (nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
verb
- (transitive) To support on crutches; to prop up.
- (intransitive) To move on crutches.
- (transitive) To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag.
- (transitive, in soap-making) to stir with a crutch.
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Examples of "crutch" in Sentences
- One click later and the crutch is gone.
- She tackled previews with the aid of a crutch.
- We don't need the crutch of Notability to see that.
- The concept is an intellectual crutch for ignorance.
- Crutches and other aids were given to the handicapped.
- His crutch for Nina is pushing his quest to the corner.
- Writing that suggests that the Bush crutch is about to dissolve?
- Examples of different forearm crutches are pictured on the right.
- She is the crutch and symbol of feminity of her home, and country.
- A one legged guardian holds the door in one hand, a crutch in the other.
- The game is fought for the possession of a historical crutch made of wood.
- Could this create some sort of a crutch, which is very necessary, with the socialist world?
- Gutter crutch (arthritis crutch) For children who, due to elbow pain or stiffness, cannot use straight-arm crutches.
- The crutch is a method of wrapping the meat with aluminum foil and adding a splash of liquid like apple juice or beer.
- Such orders harm the morale of our fighting men and women and are nothing more than a short-term crutch for maintaining force levels.
- One of the funniest segments for me was when Mark Andrada (pictured in the first photo) interpreted the word crutch from the audience.
- The roughly $4.6 billion, three-year tax hike was then billed as a necessary but short-term crutch as the state hobbled through a recession.
- The answer is not sleep medication, or psychotropic medication, as the medications themselves are toxic to the organs, have side-effects, are often addictive and may be a short-term crutch that masks or worsens a long-term health problem.
- My crutch has been my 2yr old running me to exhaustion and then if I'm still up but can't do anything useful I make a super super hot bath get a fiction usually a historical romance and read until I start skipping chapters or pages and then go crawl in bed.
- The trope (or maybe it's better defined as a crutch) is that people can spend all day with the alter ego of the superhero, talking to him/her, and somehow not recognize their mannerisms and/or voice behind the mask ten minutes later when the hero comes to their rescue.