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

  • Writing that suggests that the Bush crutch is about to dissolve?
  • 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.

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