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

  • (..) and the next minute they're there. I didn't hear any sirens. The alarm went off, okay? When an alarm goes, you got a four-minute response time. Unless a patrol car is cruising that street at that moment... you got four minutes before they can realistically respond. In one minute, there were (..)
    1992 Reservoir Dogs
  • (..) 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
  • (..) Whoa-ho! Yeah! Oh, Ramone! Mama ain't seen you that low in years. I haven't seen a road like this in years. - Well, then let's cruise, baby. - Low and slow. ' bellissima! It's beautiful! Guido, look, it's-a like it was paved by angels. Boy, I tell you what. (..)
    2006 Cars