booze-cruiser

plural booze-cruisers

1. alternativeAlternative form of booze cruiser.

   Combined with sobriety checkpoints, especially around bars, convenience stores, and other predictable haunts of the booze-cruisers, the new flashlight device could be an important weapon against drunken driving.

   1985 June 3, “Anti-drunk technology”, in Daily Press, 90th year, number 154, page A4

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   While neon green, yellow and red lights pulsated from the base of her cocktail grass, Priola, two bachelorette parties and 100 or so other booze-cruisers jumped, gyrated and gestured to Montoya’s remix of Chicago house, R&B and hip-hop.

   2007 August 23, Michael Roach, “Choose your cruise: Relax, dance or tack”, in Chicago Tribune, 161st year, number 235, section 5A, page 9

   Queen Mary – the 16th century Tudor monarch, not the former Cunard liner currently moored in Long Beach, California – shares one characteristic with me: strong feelings about French Channel ports. She is reputed to have said: “When I am dead and opened, you shall find ‘Calais’ lying in my heart.” The port now beloved of booze-cruisers was recaptured during her reign by the French.

   2022 January 19, Simon Calder, “The boat train could be back for Channel crossings”, in The Independent