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Cruise

noun

An ocean trip taken for pleasure. Synonym: sail.

verb

(past & past part. cruised; pres. part. cruising)

Drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure.

Travel at a moderate speed.

Look for a sexual partner in a public place.

Sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing.

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"Cruise" Quotes from Famous Books

... that lieutenant now," said Eric, "and I'm not through the first year. And after the cruise ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... visit made two or three summers before in the course of a yachting cruise, a lover of Dunnet Landing returned to find the unchanged shores of the pointed firs, the same quaintness of the village with its elaborate conventionalities; all that mixture of remoteness, and childish certainty of being the centre of civilization of ...

— The Country of the Pointed Firs • Sarah Orne Jewett

... Saldanna, the last of the three commanders who were sent to cruise in the north of the Red Sea, having lost Diego Fernandez Peteira, came to anchor at a place called St Thomas, on the east side of the Cape of Good Hope, which was made famous by the name of Aquada del Saldanna, or Saldannas watering-place, ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II • Robert Kerr

... Naval Academy, a two years' sea cruise, and a year of actual service had made many changes in Denman. He was now twenty-five, an ensign, but, because of his position as executive, bearing the complimentary ...

— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson

... is barred to steamers: you'll never lift again Our purple-painted headlands or the lordly keeps of Spain. They're just beyond your skyline, howe'er so far you cruise In a ram-you-damn-you liner with ...

— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling

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