battle cruiser

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   a cruiser of maximum speed and firepower

   Broadercruiser

Questions about battle cruiser

What does battle cruiser mean?

battle cruiser means "a cruiser of maximum speed and firepower".

Is battle cruiser a common word?

battle cruiser is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.