0 past simple and past participle of double-cross
1 to deceive someone by working only for your own advantage in the (usually illegal) activities you have planned together:
Quite bluntly—if this is a parliamentary word—many of us feel that we have been double-crossed.
They feel that they have been double-crossed, that they have been treated in a most churlish manner.
He said the trouble was that the party did not know when they could rely upon their allies, who had double-crossed them.
Certainly the local authorities feel that they have been double-crossed.
They are not saying that, because we believe that we have been deceived and double-crossed.
Was it right that their claim should be allowed when the municipal busmen were nearly double-crossed over their claim?
They have double-crossed the electors, and in that respect they are cheap frauds and liars.
Unless he does so, how can the doctors avoid fearing that there is a chance of their being double-crossed?
