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- noun Someone who
mainlines (injects drugs directly into theirveins ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Robert Schuller is the only "mainliner" among the prime-time preachers.
Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981
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In a class I was teaching, I asked my mainly-mainliner seminary students if they saw any value to WWJD?
Texas Faith: Are Texans immoral for supporting the death penalty? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2008
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Get a mainliner EG: Daredevil to kowtow to you and I'll be impressed.
Question About New Avengers #35 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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Ok, yeah, if you're in NY and you have only one day to see a show, you're gonna go...but if you can see the mainliner, come on...
The Other Side of the Story Christine Robinson 2007
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Robert Schuller, whose Garden Grove Community Church is affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, is the only mainliner on the marquee of religious broadcasting.
Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981
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Jennings, however, who is very much a mainliner, has stated that the Federal Council's policy of requesting time for itself alone as the central representative of Protestantism was unfair to some evangelical groups, notably the Southern Baptists and Missouri Synod Lutherans.
Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981
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Egerton was a mainliner, one of the top echelon people in the London directorate.
The Kobra Manifesto Hall, Adam 1976
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If we'd taken a mainliner, instead of our own machine, we could have reached Blahn in time for treatment, or even received it on board; but I didn't want that any more than you did.
Natives of Space Clement, Hal 1965
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Leave aside the schadenfreude of a mainliner watching the SBC's struggles.
Politics Daily 2010
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That year alone five films starring "the Philadelphia mainliner" (Hopper's description), including Alfred Hitchcock masterworks
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