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crosstown

adj

Etymology

From cross- + town.

Definitions

  1. Extending across a city or town.

  2. Connecting different areas of a city or town without passing through downtown.

    • 1968 Simon and Garfunkel - "At the Zoo" on "Bookends" But you can take the crosstown bus / If it's raining or it's cold, / And the animals will love it / If you do.

  3. Situated at the other end of town.

    • The football team beat our crosstown rivals last night.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To the other side of a city or town.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for crosstown. 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