crosstown
situated or traveling in a direction extending across a town or city: a crosstown street; a crosstown bus.
in a direction extending across a town or city: The car sped crosstown.
Informal. a bus running primarily in a crosstown direction.
Origin of crosstown
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How to use crosstown in a sentence
Instead, they hung to a strap in a cross-town car, changed to the ferry, and again to the Long Island Railroad.
The Man Who Could Not Lose | Richard Harding DavisAs the bus, held up for a minute by the cross-town traffic, stopped, we could hear the pleasing burr of Harry Lauder.
Fifth Avenue | Arthur Bartlett MauriceHow I used to look down upon the bob-tailed cars at the cross-town streets.
Fifth Avenue | Arthur Bartlett MauriceKnocked off everywhere this morning except Third Avenue and one or two cross-town lines.
The March Family Trilogy, Complete | William Dean HowellsDar is a black mid-wife 'cross town dat does all sorts er odd jobs.
The Cottage of Delight | Will N. Harben
British Dictionary definitions for cross-town
US and Canadian going across or following a route across a town: a cross-town bus
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