mainline

IPA(Pronunciation)

Verb

slang broadly informal transitive

(slang) To inject (a drug) directly into a vein. / (by extension, informal, transitive) To consume voraciously.

Japanese Meaning

（スラング）薬物を静脈に直接注射する / （拡張的な意味で、非公式に）貪るように摂取する

After hitting rock bottom, he promised he'd never mainline again.

どん底に落ちた後、彼は二度と薬を静脈に直接注射しないと誓った。

Sense（1）

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

The patient skinpopped for 1½ years and then started to mainline heroin.

Sense（2）

(by extension, informal, transitive) To consume voraciously.

Sense（3）

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

mainlines

（ present singular third-person ）

mainlining

（ participle present ）

mainlined

（ participle past ）

mainlined

（ past ）