mainstreamer

noun

Etymology

From mainstream + -er.

  1. derived from *srew-
  2. inherited from *srowmos
  3. inherited from *straumaz
  4. inherited from *straum
  5. inherited from strēam
  6. inherited from streem
  7. compounded as mainstream — “main + stream
  8. suffixed as mainstreamer — “mainstream + er

Definitions

  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!
    • But to Goldwater and Bozell it was the mainstreamers who were the true aliens.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mainstreamer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA