blue line

noun

, Ice Hockey.

either of two lines of the color blue that are parallel to and equidistant from the goal lines and divide the rink into three zones of equal size.

First recorded in 1925–30

The blue line will forever be severed and a cultural change will be implanted.

The Thin Blue Line I felt I got as close as you can get—I get the killer to confess and I get the innocent guy out of prison.

It is more than the blue line marking the faint division between sea and sky that they see.

Not many years after, he wrote from England, "I saw the last blue line of my native land fade away like a cloud in the horizon."

Then, lifting his eyes, he looked away beyond the long blue line that marked the distant horizon.

For miles the bush country stretched away, and here and there the dim blue line of a mountain in the distance.

Before the storm was itself felt, the delicate glass pen became agitated and disturbed, the frail blue line broken and irregular.

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