crutch /krʌtʃ/ noun
F0 [C usually plural] a stick with a piece that fits under the arm, that you lean on for support if you have difficulty in walking because of a foot or leg injury:
» Martin broke his leg and has been on crutches for the past six weeks.See picture: crutch 
Thesaurus+: ↑Medical dressings, supports and devices
F0 [S] OFTEN DISAPPROVING something that provides help and support and that you depend on, often too much:
» As an atheist, he believes that religion is just an emotional crutch for the insecure.Thesaurus+: ↑Helping and co-operatingF0 [C] → CROTCH(Cf. ↑crotch)
Thesaurus+: ↑The human torsoThesaurus+: ↑Parts of clothes- ♯ Pride
- ♯ Printing and word processing
- ♯ Prisons and parts of prisons
- ♯ Prisons and related terms
- ♯ Prizes, rewards and medals
- ♯ Problems with bones, joints and teeth
- ♯ Processes and stages connected with sexual reproduction
- ♯ Production, direction and recording
- ♯ Products and producers
- ♯ Products of fire
- ♯ Profanity
- ♯ Profits and losses
- ♯ Programmes and other broadcasts
- ♯ Promontories and peninsulas
- ♯ Promoting, demoting and transferring staff
- ♯ Properties of circles and curves
- ♯ Protecting and saving
- ♯ Protection and protectors
- ♯ Protective clothing
- ♯ Protruding and sticking out
- ♯ Providing and serving meals
- ♯ Providing weapons or taking weapons away
- ♯ Proving and disproving
- ♯ Psychiatry and mental illness
- ♯ Psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis