acrost

across + excrescent t

• Rhymes: -ɒst

acrost

1. (US, dialect, nonstandard) Alternative form of across
   • 1904, Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond), The Magnetic North‎:

     Now ye sling a couple o' saplings acrost the durrt ye've chucked out.

   • 1905, Booth Tarkington, The Conquest of Canaan‎:

     It's in that little brick buildin' straight acrost from the sheriff's door o' the jail--ye've been neighbors this long time!

   • 1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass‎:

     I'll jest sashay acrost the track an' give 'em my regards."

• Castor, Castro, Cators, Croats, actors, castor, co-star, costar, scroat, scrota, tarocs