Definitions

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  • preposition Eye dialect spelling of across.

Etymologies

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Examples

  • She left you her little Bible -- writ yer name acrost the page --

    Riley Love-Lyrics James Whitcomb Riley 1882

  • She left you her little Bible -- writ yer name acrost the page --

    Riley Love-Lyrics James Whitcomb Riley 1882

  • An 'the colonel broke' is sword acrost, an 'cried.

    The Seven Seas Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • An 'the colonel broke' is sword acrost, an 'cried.

    Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • An 'the colonel broke' is sword acrost, an 'cried.

    Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • An’ the colonel broke ‘is sword acrost, an’ cried.

    Dear Fred Thompson: Let’s Not Do This Again - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2009

  • "We want to find out about that ranch acrost the creek -- who owns it, if they'll sell, where we'll find 'em, an 'such things."

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • Brother I feel so proud that I have come acrost this gentlemen and hope please God to help you if I shuld receive any money from

    Letter 13 2009

  • At last, in desperation, he blurted out, "For two cents, Frona, I'd lay ye acrost me knee."

    CHAPTER 16 2010

  • Tried to sneak in on the quiet, but the fellows knew when he left New York, an 'kept track of him all the way acrost.

    CHAPTER X 2010

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  • Unless someone died in the midst of spelling acrostic, or has some kind of speech defect that prohibits the proper pronunciation of across, this isn't a word.

    If someone should happen to find some incredibly archaic definition for it, well, great. Until then... ARGH!

    February 23, 2007

  • Used by Alfred Lord Tennyson in Crossing the Bar, Leonardo di Vinci used it also. It has been around for quite a while.

    November 29, 2007

  • Thanks danpage0! Glad to know it's actually a word after all.

    November 29, 2007

  • These citations may well be authentic, but this word in common usage is still bad English. I second the ARGH.

    June 30, 2008