Meaning

1 senses
  1. The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.

Origin

From cross- + reading.

From cross- + reading.

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Forms

plural: cross-readings
Singularcross-reading
Pluralcross-readings

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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