cruiser

Other forms of cruiser

plural

cruisers·

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.

Questions about cruiser

What does cruiser mean?

cruiser means "a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cruiser?

cruiser has 2 syllables: crui-ser. The stress falls on "crui". In IPA it is /ˈkɹuzɚ/.

What is another word for cruiser?

Close synonyms include police cruiser, patrol car, police car, prowl car, squad car. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cruiser a common word?

cruiser is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.