crosstown

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9

Definition of crosstown

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (US, not-comparable)Extending across a city or town.
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adj

  1. (US, not-comparable)Extending across a city or town.
  2. (not-comparable)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.”

adv

  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.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From cross- + town.

Words you can make from crosstown

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8-letter words

1 word

7-letter words

3 words

6-letter words

14 words

5-letter words

39 words

4-letter words

59 words

3-letter words

37 words

2-letter words

8 words

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