cruise

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure

   They cruised the neighborhood in their new convertible.

2. 2
   noun

   A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.

   Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

3. 3
   noun

   A period spent in the Marine Corps.

   I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]

4. 4
   noun

   A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group.

   Near-synonym: car show

5. 5
   verb

   To sail about, especially for pleasure.

   He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…].

6. 6
   verb

   To attempt to pick up as a casual sexual partner; hit on

   1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Lot of not too bad looking boys there but when M came in I knew right then: him. Very thin & feminine, brown hair fluffed around his sharp featured face. So I began cruising him.

7. 7
   verb

   To win easily and convincingly.

   Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians.

8. 8
   verb

   To have a period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to going through a full-dosed cycle (blast).

   blast and cruise

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.