Word.ws English Dictionary

mainliner

mainliner noun: a member of the mainstream.

Noun

mainliner (plural mainliners)

  1. A member of the mainstream.
    • […] discusses those who belong to the discipline's dominant cults, the mainliners, and their relations with the marginals and mavericks.1990, Elizabeth B. Lee, Sociology For People: A Caring Profession, page 110
    • Mainliners view sociology as a profession or occupation, and marginals are antisociologists and unsociologists.2017, Shulamit Reinharz, On Becoming a Social Scientist
  2. Someone who mainlines (injects drugs directly into their veins).
  3. A prisoner held within the general population of a prison.

Forms of mainliner

pluralmainliners

Origin of mainliner

From mainline + -er.

Questions about mainliner

What does mainliner mean?
Mainliner means a member of the mainstream.
What part of speech is mainliner?
Mainliner is a noun.
What is the plural of mainliner?
The plural of mainliner is mainliners.

Words near mainliner in the dictionary

  1. mainlands
  2. mainlane
  3. mainlanes
  4. mainline
  5. mainlined
  6. mainliner
  7. mainliners
  8. mainlines
  9. Mainling
  10. mainlining
  11. mainly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mainliner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mainliner.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mainliner. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.