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crossplayer

crossplayer

English

Photograph of two Star Wars cosplayers: A woman dressed as the male character Han Solo and a man dressed as the female character Princess Leia.
Two Star Wars crossplayers at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con.

Noun

crossplayer (plural crossplayers)

  1. A cosplayer involved in crossplay.
    • 2014, Thomas, Catherine, “'Love to Mess with Minds': En(gendering) Identities Through Crossplay”, in Ben Bolling & Matthew J. Smith, editor, It Happens at Comic-Con: Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon, McFarland, ISBN 9781476614472, page 35:
      On the other hand, most male crossplayers refused to act in a "feminine" fashion in spite of being in the costume of a female character.