Cruise
English Meaning
See Cruse, a small bottle.
- To sail or travel about, as for pleasure or reconnaissance.
- To go or move along, especially in an unhurried or unconcerned fashion: "A whole cache of babies . . . cruised imperiously in their strollers, propelled by their mothers or by pairs of grandmothers” ( Anne Tyler).
- To travel at a constant speed or at a speed providing maximum operating efficiency for a sustained period.
- Informal To move leisurely about an area in the hope of discovering something: taxis cruising for fares.
- Slang To look for a sexual partner, as in a public place.
- To inspect a wooded area to determine its lumber yield.
- To travel about or journey over.
- Slang To look in (a public area) for a sexual partner.
- Slang To seek out and make a sexual overture to.
- To inspect in order to determine lumber yield.
- The act or an instance of cruising, especially a sea voyage for pleasure.
