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cruisey

cruisey is the alternative spelling of cruisy.

Meaning of cruisy

Adjective

cruisy (comparative cruisier, superlative cruisiest)

  1. Suitable to listen to when driving leisurely.
  2. Leisurely.
  3. (colloquial) Suitable for finding sexual partners (especially for gay men).
    • Went to 12 gay bars including leather & glitter ones, to a gay movie & to the cruisy gay area of Central Park twice.1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
  4. (colloquial) Tending to cruise for sexual partners.
    • Most of the women who approached me were cruisy, butch numbers.1979 April 7, Pat M. Kuras, “Advertising for Love”, in Gay Community News, page 11
  5. (New Zealand) A laid back job, person, or place.

Forms of cruisey

alternative formcruisy

Origin of cruisey

From cruise + -y.

Questions about cruisey

What is cruisey the alternative spelling of?
Cruisey is the alternative spelling of cruisy.

Words near cruisey in the dictionary

  1. cruiseship
  2. cruiseships
  3. cruiseway
  4. cruiseways
  5. cruisewear
  6. cruisey
  7. cruisie
  8. cruisier
  9. cruisies
  10. cruisiest
  11. cruisin'

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cruisey (page history and authors); cruisy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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