English edit

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Etymology edit

cruise +‎ -y

Adjective edit

cruisy (comparative cruisier, superlative cruisiest)

  1. (of music) Suitable to listen to when driving leisurely.
  2. (skiing, of a piste) Leisurely.
  3. (colloquial, of a place) Suitable for finding sexual partners (especially for gay men).
    • 2000, Access Press, Access Gay USA:
      Will Rogers State Beach is a cruisy gay beach, always lots of people and lots of fun.
    • 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.
  4. (colloquial, of a person) Tending to cruise for sexual partners.
    • 1979 April 7, Pat M. Kuras, “Advertising for Love”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
      Most of the women who approached me were cruisy, butch numbers.