Meaning of Beeline | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A very direct or quick path or trip.
2. 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.
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Examples

“to make / strike a beeline for / to something”

“The children made a beeline to the swimming pool.”

“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.”

“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.”

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