fire crotch n. a person with red (pubic) hair. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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“Firecrotch” gained a new degree of legitimacy (or notoriety) when it appeared in “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” Episode 135: “Seeds” (Season 7, first aired Oct 11, 2007).
Provocating and antagonistic Suspect Jason Rush (actor August Emerson) lashes back at even more provocating and antagonistic (and flaming-red-haired) Detective Nola Falacci (Alicia Witt):
Jason Rush (yelling at Nola Falacci): “Anything else you want to see, firecrotch?”
According to TV.com, this use of ‘firecrotch’ was “ripped from the headlines” of the Davis/Lohan incident by L&O;:CI writers.
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