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Definition of crouch noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

crouch

noun
 
/kraʊtʃ/
 
/kraʊtʃ/
[singular]
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  1. a crouching position
    • She dropped to a crouch.
    Word Originlate Middle English: perhaps from Old French crochir ‘be bent’, from croche ‘crozier, shepherd's crook’, based on Old Norse krókr ‘hook’.
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