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CROSS-DRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cross-dress mean? 

CROSS-DRESS (verb)
  The verb CROSS-DRESS has 1 sense:

1. dress in the clothes of the other sexplay

  Familiarity information: CROSS-DRESS used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CROSS-DRESS (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they cross-dress  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it cross-dresses  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: cross-dressed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: cross-dressed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: cross-dressing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Dress in the clothes of the other sex

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "cross-dress" is one way to...):

dress; get dressed (put on clothes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

cross-dresser (someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex)


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