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

One foot in the past season, the other in the future, your team trapped somewhere in-between.

From Los Angeles Times

His stylistic innovations included an emphasis on neutral, in-between colors, soft shoulders, and a more relaxed approach to evening looks for men and women.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her team directly tested those "in-between" stretches in human astrocytes and showed which enhancers truly control key brain genes.

From Science Daily

“Dead, alive. It’s hard to say. Those magic animals are kind of in-between to start with.”

From Literature

The paupers’ food line was still there, queuing up patiently around the side of the palace: the young, the old, the in-between, all just as hungry and downtrodden as ever.

From Literature