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  • noun Alternative spelling of beeline.

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Examples

  • About that time the kid slides down, crawls out from under the booth, and makes a bee-line for our table.

    the Ugly Jack Swenson 2010

  • When Will was finished, he made a bee-line for the Range Rover and got in the back seat without a glance back.

    Lissa Coffey: Royal Marriage Manners Lissa Coffey 2011

  • He leads the way if I let him, making a bee-line for the swings at our local playground.

    » These Boots Were Made for Walkin’ Strocel.com 2009

  • Heading out for dinner tonight, but will target the salad-heavy option and will bee-line for the water.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 26 Feb 2010

  • (Or you get the flipside, like Dirty Old Man Derbyshire fnar-fnaring about the idea of having passengers pat down one another and making a bee-line for the attractive women.)

    Matthew Yglesias » The Great Profiling Debate 2010

  • The lining is pretty much in shreds, and most of the buttons are gone, but the coat is otherwise intact, so earlier this week I made a bee-line for one of my favorite shops in the whole wide world, Tender Buttons, Inc., at 143 East 62nd Street at Lexington Avenue, to see if I could obtain carefully matched replacement leather buttons, and sew them on.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Sure enough, here comes Rover - making a bee-line ... what do you do?

    Seen Any Good Shows Lately? 2009

  • Sure enough, here comes Rover - making a bee-line ... what do you do?

    Seen Any Good Shows Lately? 2009

  • After 10 minutes of hobnobbing after dinner, he made a bee-line to the exit.

    MJ's New Job: Selling Tickets, Kissing Babies David Biderman 2010

  • He made a bee-line over to the only person left in the park.

    The Son of Estelle Ivy Lou Freshwater 2011

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