cruise

Definition

  • verb: to travel on a boat or ship to a number of places as a vacation
  • verb: to sail about touching at a series of ports
  • sometimes used before another noun
  • synonyms: range, navigate, sail

Examples

  • She admits that she's been doing the job so long that she's 'on cruise control'. [=she does not put a lot of effort into the job]

  • On Friday nights, teenagers 'cruise' the main street in town to show off their cars.

  • We went on a weeklong 'cruise' down the Yangtze River.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) in the streets of the capital. Your parties are panicking. The bigger cities are the worst off. The airlines were the perfect delivery system. Carnival cruise vessel Dream has been given permission to join. Twenty seven knots south and closing. How soon are they showing symptoms after contact? (..)
    2013 World War Z