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say it: krooz
cruise is a verb and noun meaning "drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure". It is pronounced /ˈkɹuz/ — krooz. It carries 5 recorded senses.
drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure
“She cruised the neighborhood in her new convertible”
driving
look for a sexual partner in a public place
“The men were cruising the park”
sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing
“We were cruising in the Caribbean”
an ocean trip taken for pleasure
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cruise come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.