private parts

Questions about private parts

What does private parts mean?

private parts means "external sex organ".

What is another word for private parts?

Close synonyms include genitalia, genital organ, genitals, privates, crotch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is private parts a common word?

private parts is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.