crosstown

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adjective cross·town \ˈkrȯs-ˈtau̇n\

Definition of crosstown

1 : situated at opposite points of a town crosstown schools
2 : extending or running across a town a crosstown street a crosstown bus

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Examples of crosstown in a Sentence

The two schools were crosstown rivals in baseball.
We rode a crosstown bus.

Recent Examples of crosstown from the Web

Remember all the crosstown talk about trading Quintana for Schwarber?

— steve rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, "The more LeBron James you see, the worse the Bulls get", 2 June 2017
Patients rate their overall experience at two stars, compared with four stars at the crosstown hospital owned by nonprofit Parkview Health, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Medicare.gov website.

— john lauerman, Bloomberg.com, "Dirty, Dingy Hospitals: Doctors Blame Debt-Fueled Takeovers", 1 June 2017
Not to be confused with their crosstown rivals, in basketball and tire sales, who were actually called the Akron Firestone Non-Skids.

— victor mather, New York Times, "An N.B.A. Throwback: Ads on Jerseys", 31 May 2017

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