Definition of "cross-dress" []

• To dress in the clothing characteristic of the opposite sex. (verb-intransitive)

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• "Kelsey is finishing a year long run in La Cage aux Folles, a role Camille on Wednesday said excited him -- because, she insinuated, he likes to cross-dress."
• "The Rara bands come out of Voodoo societies that have gay congregations where gay men are permitted to cross-dress with impunity."
• "Some London Conservatives and Ken-haters, who'd convinced themselves that Transport for London was a conspiracy of Communist vegetarians, leaped upon this as proof of hidden agendas to nationalise go-faster stripes, cross-dress Mondeo Man, nationalise the Victoria sponge and so on."