mainstreamer en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From mainstream + -er.
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mainstreamers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
counterculturalist · cultist · hipster · subculturalist
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Synonyms
normal · muggle · normalfag · mundane · bourgeois · mainstreamist · normie · straight · mainstreamer · normaloid · basic bitch · L7 · square