Meaning

4 senses

  1. (slang)To inject (a drug) directly into a vein.

    inject into the vein

  2. (broadly, informal, transitive)To consume voraciously.

  3. (transitive)To integrate (code, etc.) into the main repository for a software project, rather than separate forks.

  4. (transitive)To include (a prisoner) in the general population of a prison.

Origin

From main + line.

From main + line.

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Forms

mainlines, mainlining, mainlined, mainlined
Base formmainline · to mainline
3rd person singularmainlines
Present participlemainlining
Past simplemainlined
Past participlemainlined

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymainline
he, she, itmainlines

Past simpleLesson

all personsmainlined

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave mainlined
he, she, ithas mainlined

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mainline

Synonyms

1 synonyms
mainB1

Word family

1 related words
Derivedmainliner

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mainB1mainframemainlandmainlyA2mainstaymainstream
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