A telephone or other telecommunication device that is stationary and connects to the network via traditional wiring. Wiring can include old telephone lines and fiber optic wiring. Device usually plugs into a wall jack.
adjective: a circumstance in which the user of a cell phone, dispossessed of the use of the cell phone for any reason, must resort to the use of a hard-wired communication device.
Once I saw "Technical issue: Return to place of purchase for repair" on my Blackberry screen, I knew I had been landlined.
Least attractive person in a couple you hook up with in order to get to the most attractive one. Named after the landline that no one really wants in a cable company's "triple play" (internet + TV + landline). Can also be used as a verb.
It was obvious that the guy was clearly more into my boyfriend than into me, but I still went along with it. I was clearly landlined.
This chick was so hot but she wouldn't do anything without her husband, so I went ahead and got the landline.
To screw up an exceedingly menial or easy task, without possessing the mental faculties to realize your own error.
Etymology: Comes from a bastardization of the words "Land" and "Florentina," probably a reference to one of the colonies founded by Columbus on one of his trips to the Americas, which he mistook for Asia.