Cruise meaning.

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Hello, my favorite dictionary is thefreedictionary.com I entered a word "cruise" and this dictionary suggest me one meaning "b. Slang To look for a sexual partner, as in a public place." do I need to this word slang meaning? If you read this and you are a native English speaker and what do you think? do I need to know this slang? do you know this slang as a native English speaker? Here is a direct link to "Cruise" cruise - definition of cruise by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
 

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Context!

In the appropriate context, I understand cruise to mean what you suggest. Normally I associate the word with expensive trips on a boat.
 

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Thank you. Somewhere in the past I have seen this expression "Cruising down the street" Does this mean what I'm just spending my time down in the streets with a car"
 

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Thank you. Somewhere in the past I have seen this expression "Cruising down the street" Does this mean what I'm just spending my time down in the streets with a car"
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That's all my context :)
 

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This is my context "Cruising down the street in my 64" Sorry for spam.
 

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That's all my context :)
Then we cannot say what it means exactly.

I am a little surprised that you should just come up with this sentence with no context at all. Was it just floating around in the air?
 

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No, it wasn't just floating around in the air. I looked in it carefully and I find out that full context is "Cruising down the street in my 64" 64 is just a popular car in the past.
 

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He was driving up and down the street in his cool car.
If he had been "cruising the bars" then he'd have been looking for women.
 
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As Barb says, to cruise around town in your car means to drive around without necessarily having a specific destination, mostly for fun and maybe looking for some social contact. The 1973 hit movie American Graffiti is based on this activity. A "64" might typically refer to a 1964 Chevy Impala, especially the convertible, ideal for cruisin'.

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