crisscross

Meanings

1. To move back and forth over or through.
2. To mark with crossed lines.

1. A pattern of crossed lines.
2. A mark or cross, such as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
3. A kind of crossword puzzle having no clues or definitions, but only a list of words that must be fitted into the grid.
4. A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.

1. Marked with crossed lines; crisscrossed.

1. Crossing one another.

Etymology

From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”). By surface analysis, an apophonic reduplication of cross.