(chiefly, US, idiomatic, politics) To vote, unite, or otherwise co-operate with members of another political party in order to achieve governmental or political action.
(chiefly, US, idiomatic, politics) To vote, unite, or otherwise co-operate with members of another political party in order to achieve governmental or political action.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(US, politics) To come to a bipartisan agreement; to compromise with the adversary party.
(US, politics) A vote by a person registered with one party in an election for a candidate in another.
(US, politics) The casting of a crossover vote.
(transitive, intransitive) To cross; to move from one side (of something) to the other, literally or figuratively.
(chiefly, British, and, Canada, idiomatic, politics) Of a member of a parliament, to resign from one's political party and join another party, resulting in moving from one's currently assigned desk or seat in the legislative chamber to a new desk or seat physically located with the other members of one's new party.
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