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CROSS-DRESS
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they cross-dress ... he / she / it cross-dresses
Past simple: cross-dressed
Past participle: cross-dressed
-ing form: cross-dressing
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)