cruisy

English

Alternative forms

• cruisey

Etymology

From cruise +‎ -y.

Adjective

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).
   • 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.

   • 1977 December 17, Tom Hurley, “The Evolution of Sporters”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 24, page 8:

     Jim, who's been coming here since 1954, misses some aspects of the old days. It is a busier, louder place now. "I could come here and read," he explains wistfully. "I could come here for a quiet drink." Now the press of people and the "cruisy" atmosphere make it impossible to read except in the afternoon and early evening.

   • 2000, Access Press, Access Gay USA:

     Will Rogers State Beach is a cruisy gay beach, always lots of people and lots of fun.

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.