cross-dressing

From cross- +‎ dressing, a calque of German Transvestismus.^[1]

• crossdressing
• x-dressing (informal)

cross-dressing (uncountable)

1. The wearing of clothing which society considers appropriate for the opposite sex rather than the wearer's sex.
2. (immunology) Display by antigen-presenting cells of antigens obtained from the surface of infected cells.
   • 2011 April 21, Olive Leavy, “Cross-dress to impress”, in Nature Reviews Immunology, volume 11, number 302, →DOI:

     Now, a study published in Nature shows that cross-dressing does indeed occur and is important for boosting memory CD8+ T cell responses in vivo.

• CDing, CD-ing
• transvestism

From cross-dress +‎ -ing.

cross-dressing

1. present participle and gerund of cross-dress