groin
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4.1
- noun
- /ɡrɔɪn/
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- He felt a sharp pain in his groin after running for too long.
- groin pain
- groin and rectum
- arm and groin
You have an ankle, you have a groin, and I said you have a hamstring.
- You have an ankle, you have a groin, and I said you have a hamstring.
- She had lymph noses, size of hens, eggs in her groin and her armpit.
- Drink from the straw that's been warmed by my groin region.
- You're constantly in, out, in, out because they'll have to do ankles, knees, groins, hips, shoulders, like everything you're back.
- The second one to jump was Abu Zubaydah, and the guy shot him in the thigh, the groin and the stomach, and he was bleeding out.
- A lot of guys chafe holes on the inside of their legs and their groin area, in your armpits, on your neck, on top of your head.
- But I still occasionally get like these kind of like spasms in my groin and then also kind of like upper thigh, like groin area.
Examples
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The burning sensation in his groin was spreading...
Academic text (2018) -
Children may present with a limp and hip, knee, or groin pain with limited range of motion to the affected joint.
Academic text (2005) -
Do you know how hard that is on the groin muscles?
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Always follow a kick in the groin with a shot to the chin.
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Very carefully, she felt my legs from my groin area all the way down to my feet.
Fiction book (1995) -
I knew that I was struggling with my groin when I needed surgery, which I had done when I was in Madrid.
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I'm having a day where my groin feels like it's rubbing together.
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The infection had spread from my leg into my groin area, and that's how I lost one of my testicles.
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He threw me down on the scaffold and I kneed him in the groin.
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The athlete had to leave the game due to a groin injury suffered during practice.
Synonyms
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5.5
The area at the front where the legs meet the lower body
3
5.1
The area between the legs where they join the body
The crease where the inner thigh meets the lower stomach near the private parts
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Groin comes from an old French word meaning 'throat' or 'gullet', a narrow place where two parts meet, so it became the name for the crease where the abdomen and the inner thigh join.