mainstreamer

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noun

Someone in the mainstream.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounmainstreamer (plural mainstreamers)

plural mainstreamers

  1. 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 Times
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    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

    Synonyms: basic bitch, bourgeois, L7, mainstreamist, muggle, mundane, normal, normalfag

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Origin

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APA

mainstreamer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mainstreamer

MLA

“mainstreamer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mainstreamer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mainstreamer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mainstreamer.

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