crosstown

[kraws-toun, kros-]

cross·town

[kraws-toun, kros-]
adjective
1.
situated or traveling in a direction extending across a town or city: a crosstown street; a crosstown bus.
adverb
2.
in a direction extending across a town or city: The car sped crosstown.

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Crosstown is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
noun
3.
Informal. a bus running primarily in a crosstown direction.

Origin:
1885–90; cross- + town
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crosstown

adjective
1. going or extending across a town or city; "the crosstown bus"; "crosstown traffic" 

adverb
1. across a town or city; "he traveled crosstown" 
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