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flatliner
noun- a dead person; a dead thing US
From FLATLINEFlatliners is a 1990 film by Joel Schumacher in which five medical students experiment with the line between life and death. - — Business Solutions, February 1998: “Bringing a flatliner back to life”
- [W]hen Elliott declares his love for the creature, why, the flatliner bounces back from the dead[.] — The Guardian, 15 March 2002
- a mobile phone user who allows the phone’s batteries to run down UK
A Manchester youth usage, from the sense “a dead person”, possibly, here, specificially “brain dead”. - If you’re a flatliner, you’re flaky. — The Times Magazine, 21 June 2003
- in poker, an unskilled and uninspired player US
The moral equivalent of “brain dead”. - — John Vorhaus, The Big Pook of Poker Slang, p. 17, 1996
- 4-methylthioamphetamine, the recreational drug best known as 4-MTA UK
- — Harry Shapiro, Recreational Drugs, p. 254, 2004
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