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crosstown

crosstown adjective: extending across a city or town.

Adjective

crosstown (not comparable)

  1. (US) Extending across a city or town.
  2. (public transportation) Connecting different areas of a city or town without passing through downtown.
    • But you can take the crosstown bus / If it's raining or it's cold, / And the animals will love it / If you do.1968 Simon and Garfunkel - "At the Zoo" on "Bookends"
  3. Situated at the other end of town.
    • The football team beat our crosstown rivals last night.

Adverb

crosstown (not comparable)

  1. To the other side of a city or town.
    • In 1979, what was to become PBG started as a rap group for Blacks that met regularly at the Gay Community Center, then housed in a modest building just off the artsy-craftsy South Street. […] The white man who ran the center gave the Black group increasingly smaller rooms in which to meet. […] When...1986, James Charles Roberts, “A Light That Failed”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 89

Forms of crosstown

alternative formcross-town

Origin of crosstown

From cross- + town.

Questions about crosstown

What does crosstown mean?
Crosstown means extending across a city or town.
What part of speech is crosstown?
Crosstown can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near crosstown in the dictionary

  1. crosstie
  2. crossties
  3. crosstolerance
  4. crosstolerances
  5. crosstolerant
  6. crosstown
  7. crosstrack
  8. crosstracking
  9. crosstrackings
  10. crosstracks
  11. crosstrainer

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