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  1. verb (used with object) to move back and forth over: students crisscrossing the field on their way to school. to mark with crossing lines. verb (used without object) to proceed or pass back and forth; be arranged in a crisscross pattern: The streets in that part of town crisscross confusingly. adjective.

  2. Summaries. A 12-year-old boy comes of age in 1969 Key West against the backdrop of the Apollo moon landing, when he begins to sell cocaine so his mother can stop stripping. Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar.

  3. 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. You can also use the word as a verb, meaning to cross in a pattern: "The sidewalks crisscross the city," or "I watched the dogs ...

  4. verb [ I/T ] us / ˈkrɪsˌkrɔs / Add to word list. 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.

  5. 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. Its features were named; the paths and trails that crisscrossed it were memorized.

  6. askew. variant of christcross 1810–20. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: crisscross /ˈkrɪsˌkrɒs/ vb. to move or cause to move in a crosswise pattern. to mark with or consist of a pattern of crossing lines. adj. (esp of a number of lines) crossing one another in different directions. n.

  7. [+ object] : to go from one side of (something) to the other side and come back again. Tourists crisscrossed the lake from morning until night. Scientists have been crisscrossing the country to collect data. CRISSCROSS meaning: a pattern that is formed by lines crossing each other.

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