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cross street
noun
- a street crossing another street.
- a short street connecting main streets.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cross street1
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Example Sentences
Later that day, Gyatso walked to a busy cross street, doused himself with gasoline, and lit fire to his body.
At the other end of the street he saw, or fancied he saw, a mass of persons, and he dashed down a cross street to avoid them.
They walked away through a deep cross street of red tenements with fire-escapes climbing the walls like stark, grotesque vines.
Farther on at a cross street, some women were trying to raise to his feet a naked youth beside whom lay his abandoned bow.
Once before upon this same night he had sneaked up Cross Street, and again he followed the same course.
As he faltered and wavered, he became aware that some one was coming up Cross Street.
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