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main line
noun- any large blood vein, especially the median cephalic vein US
- After that it was nothing but the main-line, the high of highs. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 228, 1952
- I began shooting in the main line to save stuff and because the immediate kick was better. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 34, 1953
- When you shoot C in main line–no other way of taking it gives the real C kick–there is a rush of pure pleasure to the head. — William Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953–1957, p. 27, 7 April 1954
- a major vein used for the injection of narcotics, usually heroin US, 1931
- Ever pop coke in the mainline? It hits you right in the brain, activating connections of pure pleasure. — William Burroughs, The Naked Lunch, 1968
- Shoot me up / In the mainline — Alabama 3 Hypo Full of Love, 1997
- at a horse racing track, the area with the greatest concentration of mutuel betting machines US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 42, 1951
- the general population of a prison US, 1967
- [R]ather than stand in the thousands-long “main-line” chow lineups[.] — Neal Cassady, Grace Beats Karma, p. 162, 10 January 1960: Letter to Carolyn Cassady
- “They’re making fair time,” he said. “We’ll eat mainline tonight.” — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 28, 1967
- In the entire California penal system there’s no better food than on the Tracy mainline[.] — James Carr, Bad, p. 26, 1975
- Whisper told the police he walked the mainline eighteen years and was never once bumped. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 124, 1990
▶ ride the mainline
to inject drugs intravenously US- “Dammit, Scar, I told you about riding the mainline.” — Herbert Simmons, Corner Boy, p. 15, 1957
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