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crisscross

[ kris-kraws, -kros ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to move back and forth over:
students crisscrossing the field on their way to school.
to mark with crossing lines.

to proceed or pass back and forth; be arranged in a crisscross pattern:
The streets in that part of town crisscross confusingly.

crisscross

/ ˈkrɪsˌkrɒs /

First recorded in 1810–20; variant of christcross

The Israeli-only roads that crisscross the West Bank have come a long way since the beginning of the Second Intifada.

Next week, Brown will fly to Dallas and crisscross the country, stopping in California and Florida.

If I travel 500 miles, I crisscross through five languages.

The peach tart was a form of pie with golden-looking sauce peeping up between crisscross strips of rich puff paste.

Great bands of cultivated areas crisscross the planet where the soil is of unusual fertility.

The old oak had been laid in a crisscross pattern, the best support possible in the days when the vaults had been made.

Lakeville had practiced its deceptive forward crisscross at least one hundred times.

Wisely, Sheffield called for the forward crisscross that had twice baffled Elkana.

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