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• in-between
  in-between

  noun

  a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc..
• in between
  in between

  In an intermediate situation, as in My roommates disagreed and I was caught in between. [Late 1500s]

in-between

American  

[in-bi-tween] / ˌɪn bɪˈtwin /

noun

1. a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc..

   yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.

2. a person who handles the intermediary steps, as in a manufacturing or sales process.

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adjective

1. being between one thing, condition, etc., and another.

   a coat for in-between weather.

in-between British  

adjective

1. intermediate

   he's at the in-between stage, neither a child nor an adult

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noun

1. an intermediate person or thing

in between Idioms  

1. In an intermediate situation, as in My roommates disagreed and I was caught in between. [Late 1500s]

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Other Word Forms

• in-betweenness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of in-between

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

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in-between in between

That’s the good news, the bad news and the in-between news.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Throughout his career, Neill pitted himself against creatures both real and imagined — or, even more often, somewhere in-between — to reveal humanity’s foibles in the face of the freakish and fantastic.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Those in-between spaces, so often treated as afterthoughts, became one of the emotional centers of his work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

That in-between space is where the record comes from.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

It was one of the strangest aspects of this in-between time—after the storm but before anyone had returned to the city—the presence of these thousands of left-behind animals.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

He returned again in the afternoon, and waited for her to enter the park at about 16:00 GMT before hiding in between two hedges.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Intel projected that September quarter revenue will come in between $15.8 billion to $16.8 billion, well above the $15.1 billion analysts had projected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

You allow these pauses in between the lines of dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

But in between, Charlotte, now 43, says they fought over who got the first look at the mail-order catalogs that, at the time, were the first to cater specifically to a tween and teen-girl audience.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

I know when it will begin, and when it will end, and what it will look like in between, and I can fight through it, and beat it.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam