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cross-trail

cross-trail verb: to broadcast a trailer on one channel or station advertising content that will appear on another.

Verb

cross-trail (third-person singular simple present cross-trails, present participle cross-trailing, simple past and past participle cross-trailed)

  1. To broadcast a trailer on one channel or station advertising content that will appear on another.
    • BBC Two cross-trailed a new costume drama that was starting on BBC One that week.

Forms of cross-trail

third-person singular presentcross-trails
present participlecross-trailing
past participlecross-trailed
pastcross-trailed

Origin of cross-trail

From cross- + trail.

Questions about cross-trail

What does cross-trail mean?
Cross-trail means to broadcast a trailer on one channel or station advertising content that will appear on another.
What part of speech is cross-trail?
Cross-trail is a verb.
What is the past tense of cross-trail?
The past tense of cross-trail is cross-trailed.

Words near cross-trail in the dictionary

  1. cross-tining
  2. cross-trade
  3. cross-traded
  4. cross-trades
  5. cross-trading
  6. cross-trail
  7. cross-trailed
  8. cross-trailing
  9. cross-trails
  10. cross-train
  11. cross-trained

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