crosstown
adverb
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L335732 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English cross- English town English crosstown From cross- + town.
- Extending across a city or town.
- Connecting different areas of a city or town without passing through downtown.
“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.”
- Situated at the other end of town.
“The football team beat our crosstown rivals last night.”
adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English cross- English town English crosstown From cross- + town.
- 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.”