mainstreamer
mainstreamer noun: someone in the mainstream.
Noun
mainstreamer (plural mainstreamers)
- Someone in the mainstream.
- And what a strange souvenir it is of its time: when mainstreamers desperate to save a newspaper clung for dear life to subversive wit!1991 February 8, Michael Miner, “Sun-Times Picks a Critic/Skip in Time”, in Chicago Reader
- But to Goldwater and Bozell it was the mainstreamers who were the true aliens.2007 November 8, Peter Beinart, “Marching After Goldwater in the Opposite Direction”, in New York Times
- Synonyms:
- basic bitch, bourgeois, L7, mainstreamist, muggle, mundane, normal, normalfag, normaloid, normie
Synonyms of mainstreamer
Antonyms
Forms of mainstreamer
| plural | mainstreamers |
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Origin of mainstreamer
From mainstream + -er.
Questions about mainstreamer
- What does mainstreamer mean?
- Mainstreamer means someone in the mainstream.
- What part of speech is mainstreamer?
- Mainstreamer is a noun.
- What is the plural of mainstreamer?
- The plural of mainstreamer is mainstreamers.
Words near mainstreamer in the dictionary
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