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bookcross

bookcross verb: to leave a book in a public location to be found and read by others, who then do likewise.

Verb

bookcross (third-person singular simple present bookcrosses, present participle bookcrossing, simple past and past participle bookcrossed)

  1. To leave a book in a public location to be found and read by others, who then do likewise.

Forms of bookcross

third-person singular presentbookcrosses
present participlebookcrossing
past participlebookcrossed
pastbookcrossed

Origin of bookcross

From book + cross, after the name of a Web site for this purpose, bookcrossing.com.

Questions about bookcross

What does bookcross mean?
Bookcross means to leave a book in a public location to be found and read by others, who then do likewise.
What part of speech is bookcross?
Bookcross is a verb.
What is the past tense of bookcross?
The past tense of bookcross is bookcrossed.

Words near bookcross in the dictionary

  1. bookcloth
  2. bookcloths
  3. bookclub
  4. bookclubs
  5. bookcraft
  6. bookcross
  7. bookcrossed
  8. bookcrosses
  9. bookcrossing
  10. bookcrossings
  11. bookdealer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bookcross (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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