crisscross
crisscross Lexical Profile
crisscross Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To form a pattern of intersecting lines across a surface or area.
"Narrow stone paths crisscross the botanical gardens, leading visitors to different floral displays."
To travel or move back and forth across a place or region repeatedly.
"The research team had to crisscross the continent several times to collect soil samples from every climate zone."
• adjective
Having a pattern of straight lines that cross one another in different directions.
"The baker decorated the top of the cherry pie with a neat crisscross crust."
• noun
A pattern, mark, or network made of intersecting lines.
"Looking down from the airplane, we saw a complex crisscross of highways and country roads."
• adverb
In a pattern of crossing lines or in opposite, intersecting directions.
"She laid the wooden strips crisscross over the garden frame to support the climbing vines."
Word Origin & Etymology
An alteration of the early modern English phrase 'Christ's cross', which originally referred to a cross symbol printed at the very beginning of the alphabet in hornbooks used to teach children to read.