crossfire Syllabification: (cross·fire)Pronunciation: /ˈkrôsˌfīr/Translate crossfire | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of crossfire noun gunfire from two or more directions passing through the same area:a photographer was killed in the crossfire figurativegrape growers have been caught in the crossfire of the boycottcrossfire in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of crossfire in the British & World English dictionary