cruiser
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- n a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters
- n a large fast warship; smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer
- n a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board
- But unknown to the 1,042 men aboard the Argentine warship, the cruiser-was being watched.
- Experts had written off the heavily armed, undersized "pocket battleship" after the Graf Spee was bagged by cruisers in 1939.
- Up steamed the Australian cruiser Sydney, half again as large as the Emden.