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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

“FivePoint was a great venue to help artists that are in that in-between stage, and not fully ready for arenas,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

“Backrooms” is a film only a 20-year-old — someone whose existence sits smack in-between decades of uniform past and the blip of a recent few years filled with massive change — could make.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Home with his mother before school, he was drafting a note to a teacher about a bad grade, and in between, he tapped out a few jokes and deleted each one.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

Adjusted operating margin is now expected to come in between 12.7% and 13.5%, compared with a preliminary outlook of 12.5% to 13%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

But he is cheered by the interactions because, whether fans love him as a good guy, a bad guy or a character in between, they all want the same thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

I scoot in between them just as our bedroom door slides open.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera