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crosstown en · ADJ

Etymology

From cross- + town.

Meanings

1. (US, not-comparable) Extending across a city or town.
2. (not-comparable, qualifier:public transportation) 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. (not-comparable) Situated at the other end of town.
   • The football team beat our crosstown rivals last night.

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Translations (4)

es de un lado de la ciudad a otro ((US) extending across a city or town) · es que atraviesa la ciudad ((US) extending across a city or town) · es de una punta de la ciudad a otra ((US) extending across a city or town) · es a lo largo y a lo ancho ((US) extending across a city or town)

crosstown en · ADV

Etymology

From cross- + town.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) To the other side of a city or town.
   • In 1979, what was to become PBG started as a rap group for Blacks that met regularly at the Gay Community Center, then housed in a modest building just off the artsy-craftsy South Street. […] The white man who ran the center gave the Black group increasingly smaller rooms in which to meet. […] When they gave the group a broom closet, the Blacks moved crosstown to the Friends Center; and PBG, Inc. was born. 1986, James Charles Roberts, “A Light That Failed”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 89:

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