cross one's legs

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cross one's legs (third-person singular simple present crosses one's legs, present participle crossing one's legs, simple past and past participle crossed one's legs)

  1. (intransitive) To place one leg over the other, especially while sitting down.
    • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 49, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 253:
      She lifted the top mattress and removed the sack and tossed it on the bed, anxious to count the booty. Sat down on the bed and crossed her legs and she loosened the drawstring and turned the sack upside down and shook.

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