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Meaning of cruisy | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
/ˈkɹuːzi/

Definitions

  1. Suitable to listen to when driving leisurely.
  2. Leisurely.
  3. Suitable for finding sexual partners (especially for gay men).
    colloquial
  4. Tending to cruise for sexual partners.
    colloquial
  5. A laid back job, person, or place.
    New-Zealand

Examples

“1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Went to 12 gay bars including leather & glitter ones, to a gay movie & to the cruisy gay area of Central Park twice.”
“Jim, who's been coming here since 1954, misses some aspects of the old days. It is a busier, louder place now. "I could come here and read," he explains wistfully. "I could come here for a quiet drink." Now the press of people and the "cruisy" atmosphere make it impossible to read except in the afternoon and early evening.”
“Will Rogers State Beach is a cruisy gay beach, always lots of people and lots of fun.”
“Most of the women who approached me were cruisy, butch numbers.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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