Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black) to deceive or cheat; thus as n. (see cit. 1960).

1921		P. & T. Casey Gay-cat 305: Crisscross — to swap a benefactor. One tramp gets a set-down; he meets another hobo who has also been fed; they explain where they have eaten and each goes to the other’s benefactor for the next meal.
1960		‘Lord Buckley’ Hiparama of the Classics 23: While he was gone, OO-Bop-A-Lap done burned his pad down and sold his family into slavery — Just one of those little Ole Sunday afternoon Criss-Crosses.
1983		R. Klein Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.].