Meanings
plural mainstreamers
- Someone in the mainstream.
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 Times1 more example
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 ReaderSynonyms: basic bitch, bourgeois, L7, mainstreamist, muggle, mundane, normal, normalfag
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSomeone in the mainstream.
Origin
Cite this entry
mainstreamer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mainstreamer
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