ˈcross-town, a. and adv.
Also 'cross-town.
[cross- 10 a.]
A. adj. Lying, leading, or going across a town.
| 1886 Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 221 With cross-town tramcars running from side to side. 1894 Congress. Rec. 28 May 5413/1, I do not believe that on the L street, or, as it is called, this cross-town road, it is possible for a cable or electric motor to be successfully used. 1900 G. Bonner Hard-Pan i. 10 Then he hastened his steps, and a few blocks farther on boarded a cross-town car. 1948 T. Sharp Oxf. Replanned iv. 89 Two medieval streets which have also, in the absence of any other single cross-town route, to carry the whole of the cross-traffic of a city of 100,000 inhabitants. 1970 New Yorker 9 May 44/1 She gets on the crosstown bus alone. |
B. adv. Across the town. U.S.
| 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) xvi. 165 The crowd in the gutter scattered, and the fine hansom dashed away 'cross-town. 1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap 401 A regular old-fashioned horse-car going cross-town. |