cross-dress
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cross-dress
- /ˈkɹɔsˈdɹɛs/ US
- /ˈkɹɒsˈdɹɛs/ US
Where it comes from
From cross- + dress.
verb cross-dresses · cross-dressing · cross-dressed · crossdress · xdress
- To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex. The need to cross-dress is no more understood than the natural forms of differing sexual orientation.
- To display (on the surface of a dendritic cell) antigens produced by a different cell. Such DC are cross-dressed because they are wearing peptide-MHC complexes generated by other cells.
Similar: transvest
