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/krˈɪskrˌɔs/ Listen

noun

Crisscross n.

A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.

A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.

verb

Crisscross v. t. To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.

adverb

Crisscross adv.

In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways. "Logs and tree luing crisscross in utter confusion."

With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.

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Etymology of 'Crisscross'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crisscross" Quotes from Famous Books

... hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out. I wish wearing flatirons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and ...

— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott

... the sketch of the UFO's track, each turn the UFO made was constant and the straight "legs" between the turns were about the same length. The sketch of the UFO's flight path as it moved back and forth over Tokyo Bay reminded me very much of the "crisscross" search patterns we used to fly during World War II when we were searching for the crew of a ditched airplane. The only time the UFO seriously deviated from this pattern was when the F- ...

— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

... masks turned towards the Cross, reading the name, and they made a sign with the hands in unison, a rapid crisscross motion over the breast, the forehead, the eyes, ending in the low murmur of a word, unintelligible, like a pledge. Then the first mask to the left rose ...

— The Black Cross • Olive M. Briggs

... troop had disobeyed him—disobeyed him to a man. A shout went up, deep, joyous and uncontrolled, its echoes pulsing out across the hot, red fields till it reached the distant camp; and Grant looked up from a war map's crisscross lines, grunted, and lit ...

— The Littlest Rebel • Edward Peple

... icecaps, from whence we lead it as it melts through underground pipes hundreds of miles to the spot where we desire vegetation to grow. There we deliver it directly to the roots of the plants so there is no waste. Great bands of cultivated areas crisscross the planet where the soil is of unusual fertility. A certain number of plants are allowed to flower and to bear fruit for the sustenance of the reproductive form of life and to replace themselves. The others we devour while ...

— Giants on the Earth • Sterner St. Paul Meek

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