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in-betweener

British  

noun

  1. an intermediate person or thing

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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At 18, Bluth was hired by Disney’s studio as an in-betweener — the artist who draws the middle frames in animation to make the action smoother — on the gorgeous princess saga “Sleeping Beauty.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2022

“I was always that long corner, that in-betweener, so it was never anything too new to me or foreign. Yeah, I enjoyed that process, for real.”

From Seattle Times Dec. 29, 2021

It might be a more elegant solution to having a “time well-spent” phone than picking up a plain Jane feature phone or backing a Kickstarter for an in-betweener phone.

From The Verge Oct. 15, 2018

Tonight proved yet again that this show is much better with the in-betweener episodes than with the Very Special Christmas/Chemo/Teen Pregnancy ones.

From Slate Jan. 2, 2013

If he is to be an in-betweener, and never be fully integrated into either Hollywood or French cinema, at least Lambert was used to the life before he even became an actor.

From The Guardian Jun. 17, 2010

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