cruiser

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 22, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> Spellchecker gone wild? Or just somebody cruising during the last years of
> his working life?
> DanG
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Short for "cruiserweight", i.e. someone not paid enough to be a heavily salaried employee, but too much to be a light-heavyweight employee?

LH
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> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Under cruiser n., in the OED, we have,
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>>> 2.b. A police-car that patrols the streets. /N. Amer./
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>> It certainly extends beyond the 1929-1967 boundaries set by the three
>> citations, but one thing this does not describe is the policeman who
>> drives the "cruiser".
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>> Today, we find in the Boston Herald article on high-paid state employees,
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>> http://goo.gl/7fCsA
>>> State police have 1,600 troopers who earned at least $100,000 last
>>> year -- with one salaried cruiser taking home $233,583.
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>> Now, "salaried cruiser" cannot possibly apply to a car. I have no idea
>> how widespread this is or how old.
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>>    VS-)
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