crosstown

adj, adv — 4 senses

crosstown

adj

Etymology From cross- + town.

1

US Extending across a city or town.

2

Connecting different areas of a city or town without passing through downtown.

Public transportation

1968 Simon and Garfunkel - "At the Zoo" on "Bookends" But you can take the crosstown bus / If it's raining or it's cold, / And the animals will love it / If you do.

3

Situated at the other end of town.

The football team beat our crosstown rivals last night.

crosstown

adv

Etymology From cross- + town.

1

To the other side of a city or town.

In 1979, what was to become PBG started as a rap group for Blacks that met regularly at the Gay Community Center, then housed in a modest building just off the artsy-craftsy South Street. […] The white man who ran the center gave the Black group increasingly smaller rooms in which to meet. […] When they gave the group a broom closet, the Blacks moved crosstown to the Friends Center; and PBG, Inc. was born.1986, James Charles Roberts, “A Light That Failed”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 89:

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