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mainliner
noun
a drug user who injects the drug into a vein US, 1934- U.S. narcotics agents have told us it is not uncommon to find a 12-year-old Negro child deeply habituated to “main-liners,” an extreme form of dope addiction, in which the subject gets no kick out of cocaine and heroin unless he inserts a hypodermic needle into a main artery in the arm or leg. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 148, 1950
- While Lukey the Swede, with scars under his sleeve and a mainliner standing among junkies, laughed with his old knowledge of Nothing. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 313, 1952
- They are all mainliners except Nellie and Fran. They go strictly for the veins. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 158, 1958
- A junkie, a dope addict, a hop-head, a mainliner–a dope fiend! — James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie, p. 45, 1964
- I had jumped from being a careful snorter, content to take my kicks of sniffing through my nose, to a not-so-careful skin-popper, and now was full-grown careless mainliner. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 200, 1967
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