Mainer
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A native or resident of the state of Maine in the United States of America.
"“People have no idea how good this stuff is, but they are about to find out,” said Mr. Patry, 62, who is possibly the most optimistic and talkative native Mainer in history."
- 2 A needle for (illicit) drug administration. US, slang
"Heroin, be the death of me / Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life / Because a mainer to my vein / Leads to a center in my head / And then I'm better off than dead"
- 3 a native or resident of Maine wordnet
- 4 One who mainly plays as a specific character or on a specific side.
- 1 A surname transferred from the given name.
Example
More examples"“People have no idea how good this stuff is, but they are about to find out,” said Mr. Patry, 62, who is possibly the most optimistic and talkative native Mainer in history."
Etymology
From Maine + -er.
From a Germanic personal name composed of the elements *maginą (“power, might”) and *harjaz (“army”).
From main + -er.
Related phrases
More for "mainer"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.