单词 | flatliner |
释义 | flatlinern. 1. Angling. An angler who uses a flatline; (also) a flatline. Cf. flatline n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > angler > others troller1653 ground angler1835 spinner1836 bankster1885 switcher1893 plunker1926 moocher1947 flatliner1984 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > other types of line ground-linea1450 ledger-line1653 gildert1681 kipping-linec1686 fly-line1706 night line1726 trout-line1789 train line1828 runner1835 salmon line1850 loop-line1859 stray-line1879 dandy-line1882 kelp line1884 cross-line1891 free line1913 flatline1950 multistrand1960 flatliner1984 1984 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 30 Mar. d9/6 The south end of Cayuga Lake should provide excellent fishing during the month of April for trolling flatliners. 1999 Angling Times 16 June 17/1 At 2.30am a flat-liner on Hutchy's right hand rod signalled ‘Fish On’. 2005 Canberra Times (Nexis) 4 June b21 Some excellent fish were taken..by anglers getting down deep with lead core line or downrigger. Flatliners mostly missed out or caught just an occasional fish. 2. a. Originally North American Medicine slang. A person who is in cardiac arrest or is brain-dead; a dead person. In extended use: a failure, something that is not viable. Cf. flatline n. 1b.Popularized by the title of the 1990 U.S. film Flatliners: see quot. 1989. ΚΠ 1989 Telegraph (Alton, Illinois) 7 July b7/5 Schumacher's next directing stint comes in October with Columbia's Flatliners. 1990 Modesto (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 10 Aug. c1 He felt Valentine's pulse. Nothing. A flatliner. 1992 Spy May 60/1 Not that it was a bad magazine, but it was a fiscal flatliner—with one of Brown's early issues..carrying just 14 pages of ads. 1995 Independent 26 Apr. 23/7 The paramedic..said..‘We've got a flat-liner here.’ 2003 Washington Post 1 June (Home ed.) d1/1 These days, it doesn't look like much,..a total flat-liner as a tourist attraction. b. British slang. A tablet of the drug 4-methylthioamphetamine, a synthetic amphetamine derivative, used (illegally) as a recreational drug; (as a mass noun) the drug itself. Frequently with capital initial. ΚΠ 1992 Face June 46/3 Kids no longer talk about buying an E, they say they had ‘a tablet’... Over the last few weeks, we've had Phase Fours, Phase Fives, Turbos, Flatliners, Shamrocks, [etc.]. 1996 C. J. Stone Fierce Dancing i. 22 I said, ‘Haven't you taken any drugs?’ ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘I've taken a flatliner.’ 1998 Pi Mag. Dec. 28/2 Flatliner, also known as 4-MTA, is being made by criminals with dirty equipment in home laboratories. 2007 Aberdeen Evening Press (Nexis) 26 Mar. 6 The most dangerous drugs in the order of the harm they do... 13) 4-MTA (amphetamine derivative—sold as ecstasy or flatliners). This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1984 |
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