Definition of "battlecruiser" []

• Alternative spelling of battle-cruiser. (noun)

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• "Who can forget the Royal Navy's life-and-death hunt for the mighty German "Bismarck," and loss of the famed battlecruiser "Hood," or the sinking of "Repulse" and "Prince of Wales" off Singapore by Japanese bombers?"
• "Searing phaser fire stabbed out from above and below the windows, and a couple of burning torpedoes soared up from below, converging on the neck of the Klingon battlecruiser."
• "-- "That favor we owed you": I'm sure this has come up before, but the favor was owed when the Justice League (and friends) saved the Anti-Matter Earth from the Void Hound (then inhabiting a Qwardian battlecruiser) back in JLA #114 (July 2005)."