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crossplayer

crossplayer noun: a cosplayer involved in crossplay.

crossplayer: a cosplayer involved in crossplay
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Noun

crossplayer (plural crossplayers)

  1. A cosplayer involved in crossplay.
    • On the other hand, most male crossplayers refused to act in a "feminine" fashion in spite of being in the costume of a female character.2014, Catherine Thomas, “'Love to Mess with Minds': En(gendering) Identities Through Crossplay”, in Ben Bolling, Matthew J. Smith, editors, It Happens at Comic-Con: Ethnographic Essays on a Pop...

Forms of crossplayer

pluralcrossplayers

Origin of crossplayer

From crossplay (“form of cosplay”) + -er.

Questions about crossplayer

What does crossplayer mean?
Crossplayer means a cosplayer involved in crossplay.
What part of speech is crossplayer?
Crossplayer is a noun.
What is the plural of crossplayer?
The plural of crossplayer is crossplayers.

Words near crossplayer in the dictionary

  1. crosspieces
  2. crosspipe
  3. crosspipes
  4. crossplay
  5. crossplayed
  6. crossplayer
  7. crossplayers
  8. crossplaying
  9. crossplays
  10. crossplies
  11. crossply

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