mainliner
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]mainliner (plural mainliners)
- A member of the mainstream.
- 1990, Elizabeth B. Lee, Sociology For People: A Caring Profession, page 110:
- […] discusses those who belong to the discipline's dominant cults, the mainliners, and their relations with the marginals and mavericks.
- 2017, Shulamit Reinharz, On Becoming a Social Scientist:
- Mainliners view sociology as a profession or occupation, and marginals are antisociologists and unsociologists.
- Someone who mainlines (injects drugs directly into their veins).
- A prisoner held within the general population of a prison.