cruising n.
walking or driving about the streets in search of a casual sexual partner; usu., but not invariably, of a male homosexual, also in a bar, club etc; also attrib.
![]() | Miss Knight (1963) 52: He used to follow me when I went cruising down State Street. | |
![]() | Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983) 440: Cruising, going out in search of a partner. | Manual of Psychiatry in Katz|
![]() | Scarlet Pansy 153: By this time, Fay had become addicted to cruising [...] deliberately walking the streets for the purpose of flirtation, and the ultimate culmination of flirtation. | |
![]() | Gaedicker’s Sodom-on-the-Hudson 1: New York’s [...] vast and far-flung assortment of outdoor cruising areas. | |
![]() | Camino Real Block Four : a.ratt: Cruising? the baron: No, just – walking! | |
![]() | ‘’ in Best of Manhunt (2019) [ebook] I guess he was bar cruising all up and down Sixth Street. | |
![]() | Goddam White Man 54: That’s the white johnnies’ game, cruising around at night in their cars for a bit of skirt. Kid’s stuff. | |
![]() | Joint (1972) 202: Usually it was cruising the subway shithouses. | letter 17 Feb. in|
![]() | City of Night 197: All this cruising is bugging me. | |
![]() | Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 9: cruising (n.): General term for this type of streetwalking or searching [i.e. for sex] is widely used. One who is involved in such is a cruiser. | |
![]() | Pimp 109: Play for cruising white tricks. | |
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 56: cruising clothes skintight clothing accentuating the lower extremities and hopefully attracting others to these areas. | |
![]() | Tales of the City (1984) 87: Cruising, he had long ago decided, was a lot like hitchhiking. It was best to dress like the people you wanted to pick you up. | |
![]() | Ladies’ Man (1985) 242: I noticed the cruising again. Lots of posing, posturing. | |
![]() | Christine 370: Buddy and his friends had gotten pretty well squiffed [...] and gone out cruising. | |
![]() | Guardian G2 24 June 2: Armistead successfully dared him to come cruising. ‘We started out at a disco and then went to a leather bar.’. | |
![]() | Guardian Rev. 15 Jan. 2: I’m going to go cruising for a couple of hours. | |
![]() | Guardian Editor 4 Feb. 12: It feels so much more ‘classy’ than cruising on Sunset. | |
![]() | 🌐 I’d only od’d a kid once after Big James, the black pimp I knew from cruising Port Authority, put me onto the trick of doping up the kids to get them nice and docile. | ‘Chickenhawk’ at www.cultdeadcow.com|
![]() | My Lives 255: I began a frantic period of cruising online. |