Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To betray by acting in contradiction to a prior agreement. synonym: deceive.
- noun An act of betraying an ally, friend, or associate.
- noun Genetics A cross in which each parent is the product of a single cross. It can be represented as AB × CD, where A, B, C, and D are inbred lines.
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- verb To
betray orgo back on
Etymologies
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Examples
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Once again, this struck the natives as the worst kind of double-cross.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Donovan cabled Macfarland on January 7: Hatz “is working under orders to double-cross you.”
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Okay, we lost grandma to cancer because the Blue Cross was more of a double-cross when they told us she'd cost them enough and they weren't paying more, but at least Barack Husein Obama didn't make her shovel-ready.
Brian Ross: The Do-It-Yourself Deprogrammers Guide to Fox News Zombies Brian Ross 2010
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Donovan cabled Macfarland on January 7: Hatz “is working under orders to double-cross you.”
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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TCM has two of the best: Double Indemnity (tonight, 8 ET/5 PT), a seminal double-cross film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray (in a far cry from his My Three Sons days); and Swing Time (10 ET/7 PT), which may just be the best of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films, and is the only one to address hard economic times.
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Okay, we lost grandma to cancer because the Blue Cross was more of a double-cross when they told us she'd cost them enough and they weren't paying more, but at least Barack Husein Obama didn't make her shovel-ready.
Brian Ross: The Do-It-Yourself Deprogrammers Guide to Fox News Zombies Brian Ross 2010
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Okay, we lost grandma to cancer because the Blue Cross was more of a double-cross when they told us she'd cost them enough and they weren't paying more, but at least Barack Husein Obama didn't make her shovel-ready.
Brian Ross: The Do-It-Yourself Deprogrammers Guide to Fox News Zombies Brian Ross 2010
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Okay, we lost grandma to cancer because the Blue Cross was more of a double-cross when they told us she'd cost them enough and they weren't paying more, but at least Barack Husein Obama didn't make her shovel-ready.
Brian Ross: The Do-It-Yourself Deprogrammers Guide to Fox News Zombies Brian Ross 2010
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Okay, we lost grandma to cancer because the Blue Cross was more of a double-cross when they told us she'd cost them enough and they weren't paying more, but at least Barack Husein Obama didn't make her shovel-ready.
Brian Ross: The Do-It-Yourself Deprogrammers Guide to Fox News Zombies Brian Ross 2010
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Once again, this struck the natives as the worst kind of double-cross.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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