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crossdress

crossdress is the alternative spelling of cross-dress.

Meaning of cross-dress

Verb

cross-dress (third-person singular simple present cross-dresses, present participle cross-dressing, simple past and past participle cross-dressed)

  1. To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.
    • The need to cross-dress is no more understood than the natural forms of differing sexual orientation.1976 December 11, Sarah Montgomery, “Plea For Tolerance”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 4
  2. To display (on the surface of a dendritic cell) antigens produced by a different cell.
    • Such DC are cross-dressed because they are wearing peptide-MHC complexes generated by other cells.2006 November 1, Brian P. Dolan et al., “Dendritic Cells Cross-Dressed with Peptide MHC Class I Complexes Prime CD8+ T Cells”, in Journal of Immunology, volume 177, number 9, →DOI, pages 6018–6024

Forms of crossdress

third-person singular presentcrossdresses
present participlecrossdressing
past participlecrossdressed
pastcrossdressed

Questions about crossdress

What is crossdress the alternative spelling of?
Crossdress is the alternative spelling of cross-dress.

Words near crossdress in the dictionary

  1. crossdesensitisation
  2. crossdesensitization
  3. crossdisciplinarity
  4. crossdisciplinary
  5. Crossdoney
  6. crossdress
  7. crossdressed
  8. crossdresser
  9. crossdressers
  10. crossdresses
  11. crossdressing

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