As it turned out, the itinerary was disconcertingly illogical, involving criss-crossing America in anything but a straight line.
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Crisscross
//ˈkɹɪsˌkɹɒs//
Synonyms for "crisscross" (100 found)
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48 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- мрежа от пресечени линии noun (pattern of crossed lines)
- кръстосвам verb (move back and forth)
Czech
1 entries- křížem adv (crossing one another)
Finnish
4 entries- ristitty adj (marked with crossed lines)
- ristiviivattu adj (marked with crossed lines)
- ruudukoitu adj (marked with crossed lines)
- pitkin poikin adv (crossing one another)
French
1 entries- sillonner verb (move back and forth)
German
1 entries- kreuz und quer adv (crossing one another)
Hungarian
4 entries- cikcakk alakú adj (marked with crossed lines)
- cikcakkos adj (marked with crossed lines)
- ide-oda adv (crossing one another)
- keresztbe adv (crossing one another)
Indonesian
2 entries- menyilang verb (mark with crossed lines)
- serang-serong verb (move back and forth)
Ingrian
1 entries- ristii rastii adv (crossing one another)
Italian
2 entries- incrociarsi adv (crossing one another)
- intersecarsi adv (crossing one another)
Latin
1 entries- intercursō verb (move back and forth)
Māori
4 entries- rakapikipiki adj (marked with crossed lines)
- rakapikipiki noun (pattern of crossed lines)
- kōpiko verb (move back and forth)
- whitiwhiti verb (move back and forth)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سطرنجلو adj (marked with crossed lines)
Russian
1 entries- крест-на́крест adv (crossing one another)
Swedish
2 entries- härs och tvärs adv (crossing one another)
- kors och tvärs adv (crossing one another)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices.
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Throughout this period, and beyond, into the rest of the battle, aircraft of various types and loadouts are crisscrossing the skies in desperate harassment attacks, with the pilots having to play constant games of "guess the carrier" to decide where to land as escort carriers are hit, sunk, disappear in columns of shell splashes, or are forced to evade at angles to the wind that make landing on them impossible.
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We reach the first barrier, which is like the barriers blocking off roadworks, or dug-up sewers: a wooden crisscross painted in yellow and black stripes, a red hexagon which means Stop.
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