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crisscross

1 verb
     
Related topics: Shapes, Patterns
criss‧cross1 , criss-cross
1CF [intransitive and transitive] to make a pattern of straight lines that cross each other:
Railway lines crisscross the countryside.
2 [transitive] to travel many times from one side of an area to another:
They spent the next two years crisscrossing the country by bus.
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