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A regional street term for a person who injects an illicit substance, usually heroin, into a vein.
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Recall that when Oedipa Maas describes the freeways of Southern California, she likens them to the veins of a drug addict "nourishing the mainliner L.A." Whereas Pynchon uses a passive construction--the road as a "hypodermic needle inserted" by an unknown agent--Karen Tei Yamashita's language emphasizes the human activity that turns the freeway system into "an organic living entity" (37).
The ends of America, the ends of postmodernism
Hardcore mainliners may hear voices in the head, or experience visual illusions that seem to the sufferers so tea!
Gerin Oil
I have the mainliner's gene for eschewing the new and the fanciful.
Not so big, not so freaky: a rad Bible for hip teens
Even in recent months, two versions of a new song, The Greta Big Tom McBride, as well as a song called The Master and the Humble Guitar Man, which pay tribute to Mainliner members John Beattie and Seamus McMahon, are receiving huge airplay on the regional stations, proof yet again of the enduring and phenomenal appeal of Big Tom and the Mainliners to this day.
COUNTRY ROADS TO THE FOUR
Despite suffering from flu and feeling as though he would rather be in bed than road racing, Farquhar rode his finest race in the mainliner by roaring from fourth to first and edging out Richard Britton with Darran Lindsay finishing third.
Motorcycle road race: Super Ryan's titanic treble; WHEEL WORLD OF JIMMY WALKER
He follows in the footsteps of the late Mainliners frontman Big Tom, who received the award in 2016.
Writing's on the Hall for star Daniel
In Hawaii, Matson runs a hub-and-spoke operation; the mainliners dock in Honolulu and discharge goods, and the company transships those materials to smaller barges that make multiple deliveries weekly to neighboring islands, similar to how goods are distributed throughout Alaska by boat or, often as not, by plane.
Islands to Islands: Matson is 'just in time' from Hawaii to Kodiak and beyond
Mainliners called on their churches to make their faith relevant in the rapidly changing American society.
Millennials, Religion, and Politics in the United States
The low levels of switching he has recorded among Canadian Mainline Protestants compared to Conservative Protestants has led Bibby (2002) to conclude: "switching is the exception not the norm among Mainliners" (41).
MAINLINE DENOMINATIONAL SWITCHING IN CANADA: COMPARING THE RELIGIOUS TRAJECTORIES OF GROWING AND DECLINING CHURCH ATTENDEES
Reg Bibby, who sees Catholics and Evangelicals in a different place than Mainliners.
Debating decline
Big Tom And The Mainliners frontman Tom McBride has been dubbed Ireland's king of country music and was greeted with a chorus of applause and cheers from the studio audience.
I've got a horse inside; WELCOME TO IRELAND'S WILD WEST; Cowboy-obsessed Paul ditches his woman and moves into the stables
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