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plural beelines
A very direct or quick path or trip. quotations examples
Discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline across the back of the Customhouse and passed under the Loop Line bridge where a brazier of coke burning in front of a sentrybox or something like one attracted their rather lagging footsteps.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
Hershie made a beeline for Thomas's table, not making eye-contact with the others — old-guard activists who still saw him as a tool of the war-machine.
1998, Cory Doctorow, Super Man and the Bug Out
(mining, chiefly historical) A dynamite fuse made with a small quantity of dynamite powder along its length, so that the spark travels quickly and at a specific known rate.
third-person singular simple present beelines, present participle beelining, simple past and past participle beelined
To travel in a straight line, ignoring established paths of travel. quotations examples
A uniformed policeman came off the elevator and beelined for the nurse's station. I beelined into the stairwell. I wasn't in the mood for chatting with the police.
2002, Tim Cockey, Hearse of a Different Color, Hachette Books
Suddenly, a woman beelines to the president, climbs to join him on his platform, there’s no security around to stop her and leans in for a kiss.
2009 November 24, Simon Dumenco, “Oriole Kooky”, in The New York Times