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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

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz answer listeners’ questions of all kinds: the political, the personal, and everything in-between.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

After he'd retreated into Mr. Carver's cubbyhole, Ross Wilcox and Gary Drake got busy whispering round the hard kids and the in-between kids.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

It has meant rain-bearing areas of lower pressure to the north of the UK, high pressure to the south and stronger winds in between, creating the changeable conditions.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“It’s going to be exhausting regardless, but the amount of rest we’ll get in between will be fine.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Still, though it wakes up when we get to the storming of the Bastille, economically but effectively rendered, and, later the Reign of Terror, in between it can turn into a murky, mopey slog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Because in between minding the net for Team USA, Frankel, 27, has quickly emerged as one of the foremost connoisseurs of the dish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

They both were afraid I’d get stuck somewhere in between with no cell-phone service.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones