Burt Lancaster
Steve Thompson/Narrator
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noun. 1. : a crisscross pattern : network. 2. : the state of being at cross-purposes. also : a confused state. Examples of crisscross in a Sentence. Verb Several highways crisscross the state. shoelaces that crisscross over the top of the shoe Tourists crisscrossed the lake from morning until night.
Criss Cross is a 1949 American film noir crime film starring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea, directed by Robert Siodmak and written by Daniel Fuchs based on Don Tracy's 1934 novel of the same name.
Criss Cross: Directed by Robert Siodmak. With Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally. An armored truck driver and his ex-wife conspire with a gang to have his own truck robbed on the route.
CRISS-CROSS definition: 1. to move or exist in a pattern of lines crossing something or each other: 2. having or making a…. Learn more.
noun. a crisscross mark, pattern, etc. tick-tack-toe. adverb. in a crisscross manner; crosswise. awry; askew. crisscross. / ˈkrɪsˌkrɒs / verb. to move or cause to move in a crosswise pattern. to mark with or consist of a pattern of crossing lines.
Considered one of the best of the film noirs to come out of Hollywood in the post-war years, Criss Cross (1949) tells the story of an honest armored-car guard whose involvement with his scheming ex-wife, now married to a sleazy gangster, lands him in the middle of a tangled and disastrous robbery.
adjective [ before noun ] us / ˈkrɪs.krɑːs / uk / ˈkrɪs.krɒs /. having or making a pattern of lines which cross each other: The streets ran in a regular criss-cross pattern. Cut the eggplants in half, and score the flesh with criss-cross lines. More examples.
to move or exist in a pattern of crossing lines: [ T ] From the air, we saw highways crisscrossing the farmland below. (Definition of crisscross from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of crisscross. crisscross.
A crisscross is a pattern of lines that cross or intersect. Your favorite shirt might be printed with pink and purple crisscrosses. You might doodle a crisscross pattern during class or stitch crisscrosses on a quilt.
criss-cross. If a person or thing criss-crosses an area, they travel from one side to the other and back again many times, following different routes. If a number of things criss-cross an area, they cross it, and cross over each other. They criss-crossed the country by bus.
