in-between

[in-bi-tween]

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.

adjective

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

   a coat for in-between weather.

in-between

adjective

1. intermediate

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

noun

1. an intermediate person or thing

Other Word Forms

• in-betweenness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of in between¹

First recorded in 1805–15

Idioms and Phrases

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

Example Sentences

There is this liminality between the living and the dead, an in-between where the bonds of love can still dwell.

From Salon

Expecting a definitive answer may have been a foolish expectation to have for “Alice in Borderland,” a series that revels in the in-between.

From Salon

“I think so much of it is, when does he start? What’s that time off in-between? How lined up are our other starters?”

From Los Angeles Times

In truth, Spinal Tap exist in a weird realm somewhere in-between fiction and reality.

From BBC

The promise of jam tomorrow appears to be the beginning, the end and the in-between of his management.

From BBC