cruize

Noun (1)

cruise (plural cruises)

1. A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
   • Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
2. Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
3. (US, informal) A period spent in the Marine Corps.
   • I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]1919, United States. Marine Corps, Recruiters' Bulletin, page 16
4. A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group.
   • Near-synonym: car show

   Synonyms:

   car show

5. (slang) A period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to a full-dosed cycle (blast).

Noun (2)

cruise (plural cruises)

1. A small cup; cruse.
   • And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.King James translators, 1 Kings 17:12

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