mainstreamer
nounEtymology From mainstream + -er.
1
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, mainstreamer, mainstreamist, muggle, mundane, normal, normalfag, normaloid, normie, square, straight
- Antonyms
- counterculturalist, cultist, hipster, subculturalist
- Related terms
- normality
- Hypernyms
- person, standard thing
- Holonyms
- mainstream