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flatline
verb
to die US, 1981
An allusion to the flat line on a medical monitoring device that indicates death.- They knew that Shelby was vibrating from having done a teener of go-fast, and that he’d chill pretty soon. Or else he’d flat-line, and they wouldn’t mind that either. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 235, 1993
- Tories can read polls as well as anyone else, and we know that we continue to flatline. — The Guardian, 25 January 2002
- [G]ot Ketamine for the nutters (oh, that’ll make you flatline). — Julian Johnson, Urban Survival, p. 170, 2003
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