mained
- 1Simple past and past participle of main.
For two seasons she mained a support character before switching to a damage role.
The streamer had mained the same sniper loadout until the latest update reworked it.
Note
A regular formation, main plus -ed, so the past tense and the participle look alike: she mained, she had mained. In gaming talk it takes a direct object, such as a character, a side or a piece of equipment. The same spelling also serves the slang clipping of mainlined, meaning injected a drug into a vein, so context decides which is meant. An obsolete use applied it to roads upgraded to main roads.
mained is a form of main
main, verb: To mostly play a particular character, side, or set of equipment during a game. Full entry
- Spelling
- main → mained: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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Origin
Formed by surface analysis from the verb "main" with the past-tense suffix "-ed".