DOUBLE CROSS


Meaning of DOUBLE CROSS in English

noun

Etymology: double (I) + cross

1. : an act of treachery : betrayal

politics is too full of stories of double crosses and sellouts — D.D.McKean

master of the art of the double cross — D.G.Haring

a. : an act of winning or trying to win a fight or match after agreeing to lose it

b. : an act of betraying a person with whom one is associated in an enterprise

2. : a cross between first-generation hybrids of four separate inbred lines (as in the production of hybrid seed corn)

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.