xdress
xdress is the abbreviation 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)
- 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
- 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 xdress
| third-person singular present | xdresses |
|---|---|
| present participle | xdressing |
| past participle | xdressed |
| past | xdressed |
| alternative form | x-dress |
| alternative form | Xdress |
| alternative form | X-dress |
Origin of xdress
From x- + dress.
Questions about xdress
- What is xdress the abbreviation of?
- Xdress is the abbreviation of cross-dress.
Words near xdress in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: xdress (page history and authors); cross-dress (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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