Cross-dress

//ˈkɹɔsˈdɹɛs// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.

    "The need to cross-dress is no more understood than the natural forms of differing sexual orientation."

  2. 2
    dress in the clothes of the other sex wordnet
  3. 3
    To display (on the surface of a dendritic cell) antigens produced by a different cell.

    "Such DC are cross-dressed because they are wearing peptide-MHC complexes generated by other cells."

Synonyms

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transvest

Example

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"The need to cross-dress is no more understood than the natural forms of differing sexual orientation."

Etymology

From cross- + dress.

Related phrases

cross-dressercross-dressing

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