mainliner

English

Etymology

mainline +‎ -er

Noun

mainliner (plural mainliners)

1. 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.

2. Someone who mainlines (injects drugs directly into their veins).
3. A prisoner held within the general population of a prison.

Anagrams

• Merlinian