Definitions for cruiser

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cruiser cruis·er

Spelling: [kroo-zer]

IPA: /ˈkru zər/

Cruiser is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 131 anagrams from letters in cruiser (ceirrsu).

Definitions for cruiser

noun

1. a person or thing that cruises.
2. one of a class of warships of medium tonnage, designed for high speed and long cruising radius.
3. squad car.
4. a vessel, especially a power-driven one, intended for cruising.
5. cabin cruiser.
6. Also called timber cruiser. a person who estimates the value of the timber in a tract of forest.
7. Slang. a prostitute who walks the street soliciting customers.

Origin of cruiser

1670-80; Dutch kruiser, equivalent to kruis(en) to cruise + -er -er¹

Examples for cruiser

Dr. Bird glanced at the fighting top of the cruiser and swore softly.

A cruiser shows up and eyes narrow and citizens often withdraw.

Churchill then decided to embark on a British cruiser, the Belfast, and watch the landings from offshore.

With lights flashing, the cruiser arrived at the Blooming Grove State Police barracks in Pike County.

The USS Arleigh Burke, a destroyer, and USS Philippine Sea, a cruiser, launched a total of 47 Tomahawk missiles.

De Robeck must give me a cruiser so that we may start for home to-morrow.

The goal is $50,000, which is the value of his 22-foot Seahawk cruiser.

She was a cruiser built in 1907 and having a displacement of 3,544 tons.

His dear friend, a felon, taken in open fight by a British cruiser!

Decatur soon returned with the French cruiser Le Croyable as a prize.