crisscross
verbEtymology
From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”). By surface analysis, an apophonic reduplication of cross.
- inherited from crist-crosse
Definitions
To move back and forth over or through.
- As it turned out, the itinerary was disconcertingly illogical, involving criss-crossing America in anything but a straight line.
- He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices.
To mark with crossed lines.
A pattern of crossed lines.
- We reach the first barrier, which is like the barriers blocking off roadworks, or dug-up sewers: a wooden crisscross painted in yellow and black stripes, a red hexagon which means Stop.
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A mark or cross, such as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
A kind of crossword puzzle having no clues or definitions, but only a list of words that…
A kind of crossword puzzle having no clues or definitions, but only a list of words that must be fitted into the grid.
- A definite advantage of the fact that no fill-in-the-blank sentences are used is that it's very easy for kids to enter their own words and see them instantly transformed into crisscrosses, word searches, and other fun games.
- Welcome to the Ultimate Puzzle Challenge — a brand-new series of books for children who love word searches, crisscrosses, mazes, crosswords, and variety puzzles.
A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of…
A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
Marked with crossed lines
Marked with crossed lines; crisscrossed.
Crossing one another.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for crisscross. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA