drop-crotch

• drop crotch

drop-crotch (countable and uncountable, plural drop-crotches)

1. A style of pruning in which an upper limb is cut back to the next lower lateral.
   • 1998, Arborist News, page 11:

     If a drop-crotch cut will remove too much foliage from a limb, the limb either should be removed entirely, or not cut at all.

2. A style of trousers with extra room in the crotch region, such as in harem pants.
   • 2015, Dina Gachman, Brokenomics: 50 Ways to Live the Dream on a Dime, →ISBN, page 148:

     I tried on a pair of drop-crotch pants one day because they were trendy and I thought maybe, just maybe, I could rock them.

drop-crotch (third-person singular simple present drop-crotches, present participle drop-crotching, simple past and past participle drop-crotched)

1. To prune using the drop-crotch technique.
   • 2001, Arborist News - Volumes 10-11:

     Sometimes restoring a top or drop-crotching or even selectively removing certain branches will achieve the same result that the client had in mind — they may call it topping but in reality what I do is far different.