Usually means: Conflicting or interacting opposing currents.
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  1. crosscurrent: Merriam-Webster
  2. crosscurrent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crosscurrent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crosscurrent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crosscurrent: Vocabulary.com
  6. crosscurrent: Wordnik
  7. crosscurrent: Wiktionary
  8. crosscurrent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. crosscurrent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. crosscurrent: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. crosscurrent: Dictionary.com
  12. Crosscurrent (Chase Baird album), Crosscurrent (film), Crosscurrent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. crosscurrent: Rhymezone
  14. crosscurrent: FreeDictionary.org
  15. crosscurrent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. crosscurrent: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. crosscurrent: Encyclopedia

(Note: See crosscurrents as well.)

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noun:  (nautical) A turbulent stretch of water caused by multiple currents.
noun:  (nautical) A current in a body of water running counter to the main current or direction of travel.
noun:  (by extension) A situation in which there are conflicting opinions.

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