English

A classic cabin cruiser (1912)

Alternative forms

• cabin-cruiser

Noun

cabin cruiser ‎(plural cabin cruisers)

1. A motorboat which has enclosed living quarters, especially a privately owned pleasure craft.
   • 1917, Ralph Henry Barbour, The Adventure Club Afloat, ch. 4:

     A hundred yards away a cluster of boys on the deck of a sturdy cabin-cruiser swung their caps and sent a hail across.

   • 1963 July 5, "Perils of the Surface," Time:

     Today the ubiquitous cabin cruiser seems to many a Sunday skipper like nothing more than a watertight version of the car he left parked at the marina.

   • 2007 Nov. 5, Denyse Renne, "Lost at sea; no sign of brothers for 3 months," Trinidad and Tobago Express:

     The Franks were lost on July 5, shortly after leaving Grenada on their cabin cruiser Reel Lucky.