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

  • (..) I'll take over, Oh, come here, Well, you know, she probably wants to know if we've decided to go with them on the cruise, What do you think? You know, that's a hell of a lot of money and trouble to end up on a boat with a bunch of people that you don't really care a lot about, (..)
    1994 The Glass Shield