Wanna run my line?

[Chris S]

I've just walked back from the shops along a fairly dark, quiet road. As I passed a group of three Asian youths one of them said "Wanna run my line?"

Does anybody know what it means? There were a couple of other people some distance behind them so I just ignored him and walked on.

 

[Cycleops]

Something to do with drugs?

 

[Cuchilo]

I think maybe you got in his way while he was doing nothing . Or maybe he wanted to hire you to put his washing out as he was too busy at work to do it his self ?

 

[Beebo]

Maybe he’s the MD of Network rail selling off franchises.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

He was offering you a job in line management.

 

[Racing roadkill]

He was trying to sell you drugs.

 

[Beebo]

Running the line usually means being the lines man or touch judge at a local sports game.
A thankless task.

 

[Jenkins]

Something to do with fishing?

 

[Sharky]

It must be a pilot for the long awaited sequel to What's My Line

 

[Moodyman]

In the drugs trade, there is a hierarchy where the runners are the most junior 'staff'. Their job is to move the drugs from one place to another and to sell directly to the punter.

This is to protect the main dealer/s from the police in the event the runner gets caught.

The reference to a 'line' is where the main dealer will allocate a territory to one of his runners. It also stems from the telephone number given to that runner i.e. hotline for punters to call.

 

[biggs682]

A bit like deliveroo then but delivering drugs

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I’m going to go with environmentally sympathetic.

Tuna line fishing rather than purse seine.

Support him and his trade with vigour.

 

[sleuthey]

Street names or nicknames for Cocaine:

Bernie's Flakes, Big Bloke, Bernie's Gold Dust, Big Flake, Blanca, Crack, Flake, Gold Dust, Haven Dust, Have A Dust, Icing, Line, Pearl, Paradise White, Snow White, Snowcones, Sleigh Ride, White Powder, and White Mosquito.

Source

Run? Well, to transport it from him to someone else.

 

[Drago]

I believe the chap needs assistance in I stalling a telegraph line to your remote outpost.

 

[fossyant]

Some folk here know a little bit too much

Take me for example, we moved offices to the leafy Hulme in Manchester about 5 years ago. I joked with a 'younger' colleague about all the gas canisters you've got to watch out for - bit like banana skins. I joked that either someone is getting lots of punctures or god knows. He laughed, 'it's Nitrus oxide, the students inhale it'... That's me told.