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cruise
verb- to search for a casual sex partner, usually homosexual; to pursue a person as a casual sex partner, especially by eye contact US, 1925
- “Oh that charming young scamp, or is it ‘camp,’ who passed me on the stairs on his way out cruising.” — Reginald Harvey, Park Beat, p. 76, 1959
- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 263, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- [T]wo anxious fairies cruise me. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 194, 1963
- — Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (Johns Committee), Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, 1964: “Glossary of homosexual terms and deviate acts”
- A man who spends long evenings in a “gay bar” hoping to “cruise” what he knows is going to be a one-night stand cannot fulfill his office functions the next morning. — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 59, 1965
- She is aggressive in all of her homosexuality, from making the first overture to a girl while “cruising” to her actions in bed. — Ruth Allison, Lesbianism, p. 20, 1967
- Another homosexual trait noted by Bergler and others is chronic dissatisfaction, a constant tendency to prowl or “cruise” in search of new partners. — Joe David Brown, Sex in the ‘60, p. 69, 1968
- I don’t get it–you cruise Atlantic City or something? — Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, p. 121, 1968
- At first it simply didn’t occur to me that this number was cruising me. — John Francis Hunter, The Gay Insider, p. 35, 1971
- [T]he third episode begins with Donovan, quite naked, wandering around his house, “cruising” a black telephone lineman. — Kenneth Turan and Stephen E. Zito, Sinema, p. 191, 1974
- An attractive man begins to cruise him. — John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, p. 74, 1977
- What are you doing, cruising him? — As Good As It Gets, 1997
- to join others in driving slowly down chosen downtown streets, usually on a weekend night, seeing others and being seen US, 1957
- The Fearless Four, as we called ourselves, went cruising Tenth Street in Modesto, circling Burgi’s Drive Inn or dragging the Okies along the canal banks with the trunk loaded with Goebel beer every night for three years. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, p. 107, 1972
- — John Edwards, Auto Dictionary, p. 38, 1993
- to drive US
With a suggestion of carefree elan. - “Whaddya say, hey?” he said to Comfort. “Let’s do some cruisin’.” — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 58, 1957
- Wait, wait, I gotta cruise by this afternoon and run a little business if you know what I’m talking about. — Dazed and Confused, 1993
- to take someone, to lead someone US
- Rue Auberg; fly little chick gets stranglehold on my lapel, tries to cruise me up to her apartment[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 197, 1946
▶ cruisin’ for a bruisin’
heading for trouble, especially a physical beating US, 1947- — Newsweek, p. 28, 8 October 1951
- — Dobie Gillis Teenage Slanguage Dictionary, 1962
- Your dad is really cruising for a bruising, Carlotta. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 376, 1993
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