Etymology
Origin of mainliner
Example Sentences
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The Salt Lake City radio range, whose faulty operation misled another mainliner into a Wasatch ridge in November 1940, was working normally.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eire, badly short of coal and gasoline, runs its railroads with only one mainliner a day.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still, for the ice cream mainliner, the name of the game this summer is that calorific Italian stuff.
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