plumber's crack

English

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Noun

plumber's crack

1. (slang) An intergluteal cleft visible due to low-riding pants, especially when one is bending over.
   • 2008, Insults and Comebacks, Venice, California: Knock Knock, page 27:

     Very classy: visible thong and plumber's crack.

   • 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Ask Me if I Care”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:

     Marty comes on for the next number, but he spazzes out and drops his violin. The barely interested crowd gets just interested enough to yell some insults when he crouches to replug it with his plumber's crack displaying.

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Translations

cleavage between buttocks

• Dutch: bouwvakkersdecolleté (nl)
• French: sourire du plombier (fr) m, raie du maçon (fr) f
• German: Maurerdekolleté (de), Bauarbeiterdekolleté n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rørleggersprekk m

• Portuguese: cofrinho (pt) m (Brazil)
• Swedish: raggarskåra c