crisscrossed
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Adjective
[edit]crisscrossed (comparative more crisscrossed, superlative most crisscrossed)
- Marked by lines crossing in two or more directions.
- 2019, The Head and the Heart, “Missed Connections”, in Living Mirage:
- Don't tell me I lost a step / Criss-crossed in the wrong direction / Found myself in a conversation / From a missed connection
Verb
[edit]crisscrossed
- simple past and past participle of crisscross
- 1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 15:
- As I crisscrossed managerial circles in different corporations, becoming known in some segments of the corporate world and running into managers that I had met in the course of my search, often in odd places, my personal contacts increased as managers referred me to each other.