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The Collaborative International Dictionary
cross-dresser

cross-dresser \cross-dresser\ n. someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex.

Syn: transvestite.

Wiktionary
cross-dresser

alt. A person who wears clothing which society considers appropriate only for members of the opposite sex. n. A person who wears clothing which society considers appropriate only for members of the opposite sex.

WordNet
cross-dresser

n. someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex [syn: transvestite]

Usage examples of "cross-dresser".

No unseemliness attached itself to me, no hint of cross-dresser bars or ads in the back of louche magazines.

Grace would have thought Harmony a cross-dresser or even a transsexual, if it hadn't been for a throwaway comment she had once made about having a miscarriage when she was fifteen and never getting pregnant again.

This particular man, Margarite knew, was a cross-dresser, not a peccadillo that would be condoned if it were made public.

What with the diesels, bull faggots, strippers, cross-dressers and money-lovers I have to work around, I can't get worked up about abnormality any more.