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Meaning of cross-town in English:

cross-town

adjective

  • Extending or travelling from one side of a town to the other.

    ‘the cross-town traffic’
    • ‘The trust also says that the time has come for a decision to be made on a southern relief road, which could relieve the town centre of much cross-town traffic.’
    • ‘The sun was out and I was driving into it in cross-town traffic.’
    • ‘Most evening services could disappear and cross-town links to the hospital could be lost.’
    • ‘Las Vegas is the only other U.S. city to attempt monorail as cross-town transit lines rather than an airport people-mover, downtown shuttle or amusement ride.’
    • ‘He completed the cross-town course in just 14 minutes and 42 seconds.’

adverb

  • From one side of a town to the other.

    • ‘she drove us cross-town’