mainliner
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of the mainstream.
noun
A prisoner held within the general population of a prison.
Example Sentences
- "[…] discusses those who belong to the discipline's dominant cults, the mainliners, and their relations with the marginals and mavericks."
- "Mainliners view sociology as a profession or occupation, and marginals are antisociologists and unsociologists."
Etymology
From mainline + -er.