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Crisscross   Listen
adverb
Crisscross  adv.  
1.
In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways. "Logs and tree luing crisscross in utter confusion."
2.
With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.





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"Crisscross" Quotes from Famous Books



... There were crisscross shadows on the floor, cast there by the iron bars at the windows. Her child lay asleep in an institutional garb of charity. The father of that child, ignorant of its very existence, was at that moment, and at a distance of one thousand miles, adjusting a ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
... games] leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother may I; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper^, hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks, jackstones^, marbles; mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag &c; billiards, pool, pingpong, pyramids, bagatelle; bowls, skittles, ninepins, kain^, American bowls^; tenpins [U.S.], tivoli. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


Words linked to "Crisscross" :   reticular, cross, line, reticulate, marking, track, crisscrossed, get over


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