Crosstown
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Crosstown is an adjective meaning (US) Extending across a city or town.
Meaning
(US) Extending across a city or town.
More Meanings
- (public transportation) Connecting different areas of a city or town without passing through downtown.
- Situated at the other end of town.
- To the other side of a city or town.
Example Sentences
The football team beat our crosstown rivals last night.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- cross-town
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cross-city, townwide, crossing, cross-country, intertown, intercity.
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