cruise

1. (intransitive) To sail about, especially for pleasure.Examples: "He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…]."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.intransitive

3. (transitive) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.transitive

4. (ambitransitive, forestry) To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.ambitransitive

5. (ambitransitive, colloquial) To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.ambitransitivecolloquial

6. (transitive, colloquial) To attempt to pick up as a casual sexual partner; hit onExamples: "1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Lot of not too bad looking boys there but when M came in I knew right then: him. Very thin & feminine, brown hair fluffed around his sharp featured face. So I began cruising him."; "We see him [Joseph Huff-Hannon] approach several sets of men to ak if they have "a minute to talk about climate change"; they dismiss him out of hand, clearly more interesting in playing volleyball and cruising—including cruising Huff-Hannon himself—than in listening to bad news."colloquialtransitive