(from the article `naval ship`) HMS Dreadnought made earlier large cruisers obsolete, since it was nearly as fast as any of these ships. Consequently, the Royal Navy built a series ... ...War I, armoured cruisers were eclipsed by cruisers as large as battleships (displacing up to 20,000 tons) and carrying dreadnought-style armament ... ...
A Battle Cruiser is a type of warship. A Battle Cruiser is similar to a cruiser in speed and size, and to a Battleship in terms of armament, being a fast, heavily armed warship combining traits of both a cruiser and a battleship.Battle-cruiser is London Cockney rhyming slang for boozer (pub).
[n] - a cruiser of maximum speed and firepower
noun a cruiser of maximum speed and firepower