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Cruise Elroy

Cruise Elroy proper noun: the enemy ghost character Blinky in the 1980 video game Pac-Man, when he enters a mode in which he can outpace the player character Pac-Man.

Proper noun

Cruise Elroy

  1. (slang) The enemy ghost character Blinky in the 1980 video game Pac-Man, when he enters a mode in which he can outpace the player character Pac-Man.
    • As the player munches through the dots, pills and spirits of the maze, Blinky is provided with extra speed, turning him into what is commonly known as 'Cruise Elroy'. The origin of this term is unknown, but it is believed to be attributed to Spencer Ouren of the Bozeman Think Tank which cracked the...2018, Alex Wade, The Pac-Man Principle: A User's Guide To Capitalism
    • Cruise Elroy breaks the rules in that he sometimes chases after Pac-Man even in scatter mode.2021, Holger Weßling, Jack Goldstein, 101 Amazing Facts about Pac-Man

Origin of Cruise Elroy

Unknown; the term does not appear in the game itself.

Questions about Cruise Elroy

What does Cruise Elroy mean?
Cruise Elroy means the enemy ghost character Blinky in the 1980 video game Pac-Man, when he enters a mode in which he can outpace the player character Pac-Man.
What part of speech is Cruise Elroy?
Cruise Elroy is a proper noun.

Words near Cruise Elroy in the dictionary

  1. cruise climbed
  2. cruise climbing
  3. cruise climbs
  4. cruise control
  5. cruise controls
  6. Cruise Elroy
  7. cruise liner
  8. cruise liners
  9. cruise missile
  10. cruise missiles
  11. cruise missle

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