Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
An act or instance of deliberate betrayal or deceit, especially in which one party violates a prior agreement or trust with a collaborator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Of a breeding, the hybrid product of double-crossing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To betray or go back on; to deceive someone after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were being aided.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: quisle, sell out, stab in the back, assfuck, betray, burn, cop out, cross out, cross up, double-cross, do someone dirty, do the dirty on, false, go back on, knife, let down, play someone false, renegade, sell, sell the pass, sell down the river, sell down, swike, traitorize, turncoat
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Of breeding, to cross twice in hybridization, as (A × B) × (C × D); for example, in commercial hybrid seed corn, A through D are classically inbreds, and their grandoffspring is the seed for sale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: biology, botany, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
First recorded in 1834 from thieves' slang cross (or on the cross) to refer to something dishonest, a play on straight or square: a crook going back on his partners would therefore be crossing the crossers, or double-crossing.
Across languages
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
