beeline means A very direct or quick path or trip. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.
Why this word is great
BEELINE — [Noun] A direct, straight-line course or route, likened to the path a bee is believed to take when returning to its hive. From bee + line, due to the belief that a bee returns to its hive in a straight course; originally an Americanism from the early 19th century. Unlike a “circuitous route” (a deliberate, scenic, or evasive indirectness) or a “meander” (a languid, purposeless wandering), a beeline is intent distilled into pure trajectory. It is the child’s sudden sprint through a crowded park toward the ice cream truck, the dog’s unerring vector across the kitchen at the sound of the can opener, the grim trajectory of a commuter through a station when the homebound train is announced—a brief, beautiful fiction of unimpeded passage drawn not by maps, but by need.
noun
- A very direct or quick path or trip.“to make / strike a beeline for / to something”
- 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.
verb
- To travel in a straight line, ignoring established paths of travel.“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.”