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

  • (..) stole microprocessors... ...from the Mass Processor Company out on Route . These are the kind they put into computers... ...that could put a cruise missile up the ass of a camel... ...from a couple hundred miles away. These pieces of plastic are worth about grand apiece. We got a guy working (..)
    2006 The Departed