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It's not the road less traveled
Answer for the clue "It's not the road less traveled ", 8 letters:
mainline
Alternative clues for the word mainline
Word definitions for mainline in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. inject into the vein; "She is mainlining heroin"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also main-line , 1934, from main line in American English slang sense "principal vein into which drugs can be injected" (1933).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ mainline Protestant churches ▪ a mainline news network EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Following the first three axioms helps to mobilize these and bring them to the aid of the mainline medical program. ▪ In the physical ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mainline \main"line`\ (m[=a]n"l[imac]n`) v. t. 1. to inject (illegal drugs) into the vein; as, he preferred to mainline heroin rather than sniff coke.
Usage examples of mainline.
Steward thought, marching in lockstep along the third level of the Vesta mainline centrifuge, Steward at the ardis, cleaving apart the Brighter Suns citizens.
It would take that long for enough sap to run from tree through lateral line to mainline to sugarhouse, to warrant firing up the evaporator.
I know of no other case in which the mainline media have let the tabloids take the lead and then reported on their reporting.
Aidan's, of course) who thought that these two elaborated the services beyond what was defensible in terms of mainline Anglicanism and the spirit of the Thirty-Nine Articles.
It occurred to Ryan that the speed they were moving at, on a brakeless vehicle, could leave them vulnerable to any kind of sabotage of the mainline track.
We've bought several years of absolute time to continue our work, and time is pretty much back on its original mainline track.
At its peak it had two mainline railway stations, eight music halls, eight cinemas, an aquarium, a funfair, a menagerie, a revolving tower, a boating garden, a Summer Pavilion, a Winter Gardens, the largest swimming-pool in Britain, and two piers.
Another man was on his way to the mainline station in Darlington to give them a hand.
There Patel got out with his burden, walked along the platform and took the escalator up through the tubelike corridor that led to the overpass which avoided the mainline BR tracks: then down the other side again, and out across the open concrete plaza from which jutted several large slabs of ancient wall, not much more than fieldstones mortared together—a remnant of the old days when the City of London was all the London there was, and that tiny square mileage had a proper defensive wall of its own.
Along with all of its municipal buildings, it included a few big old mainline churches, several of which had gotten together and started up a food bank.
During haulback we lost the gear for an hour due to the mainline parting.
Three-hundred-Gen mainlines (such as Teg, his collaterals and siblings) had proved themselves dependable for millennia.
The economy went into overdrive, mainlining raw materials from the new worlds.
But the local addicts have been mainlining Brown so long they're suspicious of the other, and when the distributors do lay hold of the white stuff they have to step on it and tint it brown or it won't sell.
Not well exactly, not mainlining caffeine the way he was, but this was no time to equivocate or go into details.