Double-cross

Quick meaning: Double-cross is a verb meaning (transitive) To betray or go back on; to deceive someone after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were being aided.

Meaning

(transitive) To betray or go back on; to deceive someone after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were being aided.

More Meanings

1. An act or instance of deliberate betrayal or deceit, especially in which one party violates a prior agreement or trust with a collaborator.
2. (biology, botany, genetics) Of a breeding, the hybrid product of double-crossing.
3. (transitive, biology, botany, genetics) Of breeding, to cross twice in hybridization, as (A × B) × (C × D); for example, in commercial hybrid seed corn, A through D are classically inbreds, and their grandoffspring is the seed for sale.

Example Sentences

If you double-cross us, we'll track you down and kill you.

I've been double crossed / By a double dealin', double winnin' / Looks like I'm the one who lost.

The only problem is that Cosmo accidentally double-crosses the double-cross: By sheer luck he succeeds at the murder and gets away, which leaves the mob in the uncomfortable position of having to do the dirty work of rubbing him out themselves.

Word Forms

• double-crosses
• double-crossing
• double-crossed

Synonyms for double-cross

Depending on context, synonyms include quisle, sell out, assfuck, betray, burn, cop out.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include betray, double, renegue, renegade, cross, traitor.

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