crutch

[US]/krʌtʃ/
[UK]/krʌtʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a supportive device used by a person with difficulty walking
vt. to support or hold up with a crutch

Phrases & Collocations

crutch user

walk with crutches

underarm crutches

Example Sentences

they use the Internet as a crutch for their loneliness.

people who make use of crutches to ambulate.

Her religion was a crutch to her when John died.

he had an image of Uncle Walter throwing his crutches away.

AOL's new 4.0 software helped turn around the company's image as an unhip online crutch for neophytes.

John Michael Crutcher, former Air Force pilot, legislative aide in Washington D.C., and practicing psychologist for more than 20 years, comes to us with a wealth of wisdom.

Ronald Beard, a consultant and former chairman of L.A.-based Gibson, Dunn &Crutcher, said if law firms don't, they'll make the same mistake he made during the recession in the early 1990s.

Real-world Examples

He needed aluminum crutches to walk.

Source: TED Talks (Audio Version) July 2015 Collection

And because I think the camera thing, it's a crutch.

Source: Connection Magazine

Five hundred pounds and half the paperback rights is a pretty solid crutch, she said.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 3

Looking round, she saw Rob Grey hobbling on crutches.

Source: American Original Language Arts Third Volume

Agendas -- they're crutches. They're for the weak.

Source: Modern Family - Season 07

More severe deformities, they need crutches to walk.

Source: The Era Model of Bill Gates

But I think you all for being my crutch in my career. You know what I mean.

Source: NBA Star Speech Collection

" It's a last resort and it shouldn't be a crutch that we rely on for school."

Source: VOA Special English Education

A bit better thanks... I've got the plaster off it now, but I still need the crutch.

Source: Big City, Small World - English Radio Drama (British Accent)

It's a crutch. - I know what it is.

Source: Our Day This Season 1

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