A passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are considered an essential part of the experience; also cruise ship
A cruiser is a motor boat which has an area for people to live or sleep. a motor cruiser. see also cabin cruiser
The 1959 and 1960 Mercury 2-door and 4-door hardtop body styles were marketed as a "Cruiser", in addition to their series names of Monterey, Montclair, and Park Lane See also: Turnpike Cruiser
A cruiser is a police car. Warship built for high speed and great cruising radius, smaller than a battleship but larger than a destroyer. The term originally meant frigates of the sailing era, used to scout for enemy fleets and raid convoys. After 1880, it was a specific type of armoured warship. By World War II, cruisers served mainly as floating bases for amphibious assaults and as protection for aircraft-carrier task forces. Today U.S. cruisers carry surface-to-air missiles vital to a fleet's air-defense screen. Nuclear propulsion has given some cruisers virtually unlimited range
A cruiser is a large fast warship. Italy had lost three cruisers and two destroyers
A man-of-war less heavily armed and armored than a battle ship, having great speed, and generally of from two thousand to twelve thousand tons displacement
a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters