1 one of two long sticks that you put under your arms to help you walk after you have injured your leg or foot:
After the accident I spent six months on crutches.
2 (usually disapproving) a person or thing that gives you help or support but often makes you depend on them too much:
High interest rates are merely a crutch for the country's ailing economy. * He sees religion as an emotional crutch.
3 = CROTCH
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for crutch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is crutch a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, crutch is tagged as noun.
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