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hintline

noun

Etymology

From hint + line.

  1. derived from linea
  2. derived from ligne
  3. derived from *līno-✻
  4. inherited from *līną✻
  5. inherited from *līnǭ✻
  6. inherited from *līnā✻
  7. inherited from līne
  8. inherited from line
  9. compounded as hintline — “hint + line”

Definitions

  1. A telephone service that provides, usually for a fee, hints on how to proceed if one is…

    A telephone service that provides, usually for a fee, hints on how to proceed if one is stuck in a specific online game.

    • Virgin Interactive hosts this Lands of Lore cache. Download a playable demo that promises challenges that will take more than a day to get through. Check out the hint file for game tips not available on the company’s call-in hintline.

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No curated loop yet for hintline. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA