Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
MAINLINE
mainline
(verb) inject into the vein; “She is mainlining heroin”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
mainline (not comparable)
Normal, principal or standard.
(rail transport) Of or pertaining to the principal route or line of a railway.
(rail transport) Of or pertaining to a surface railway as distinct from an underground, elevated or light rail one.
Synonyms
• (normal, principal or standard): mainstream
Verb
mainline (third-person singular simple present mainlines, present participle mainlining, simple past and past participle mainlined)
To inject (a drug) directly into a vein.
Synonym: main
(computing, transitive) To integrate (code, etc.) into the main repository for a software project, rather than separate forks.
Noun
mainline (plural mainlines)
(aviation) An airline's main operating unit, as opposed to codeshares or regional subsidiaries.
(computing) The main repository for a software project, from which different versions (forks) may be split off.
Source: Wiktionary
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