crisscross
Speech parts
1. crisscross - Noun
2. crisscross - Adjective
3. crisscross - Verb
4. crisscross - Adverb
6. crisscross - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.
In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.
With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.
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Little more black, little more blue. And we'll just put that in using little crisscross strokes or - or little X's, whatever you want to call them. Whatever.
Imagine the inside of St. Peter's in Rome filled with a huge quantity of fibers around a millimeter in diameter that crisscross the building in every direction creating a firm mat – then you have an idea of what the brain looks like when magnified a thousand times.
crisscross the sheet of paper
wrinkles crisscrossed her face
Once she decided on the Old Milltown location, Drake embarked on a massive remodel that aimed at keeping the building’s integrity – exposed wooden beams crisscross the high ceiling—while adding modern flourishes.
But in time, the victim becomes the executioner as ‘Aplocalyptic’ Montessa and her doomed ‘Nuclear’ Lulu crisscross the country in a bloody firestorm of revenge.