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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb At or during pauses.

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Examples

  • He is understandably upset, and allows his pride to overshadow his love for the girl... they do patch it up and live happily ever after eventually, but it takes them awhile to get there, and it's pretty awful in betweentimes...

    Archive 2008-08-01 Happy 2008

  • He is understandably upset, and allows his pride to overshadow his love for the girl... they do patch it up and live happily ever after eventually, but it takes them awhile to get there, and it's pretty awful in betweentimes...

    the end of the masquerade Happy 2008

  • Not with the National Hockey League but in his betweentimes internship at Vogue?

    Sean Avery's Vogue Internship: In Which He Doesn't Always Have to Wear a Shirt 2008

  • "You might make it through if you kept wading, betweentimes."

    Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006

  • And as always with Amory, though you forget it betweentimes, he says nothing without purpose.

    Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

  • Probably wondering if he'd bothered to take any of it off betweentimes.

    Resurrection Men Rankin, Ian, 1960- 2002

  • True, he could not stop himself from looking anxiously around every morning when the post owls arrived, nor, late at night before he went to sleep, prevent himself from seeing horrible visions of Sirius, cornered by dementors down some dark London street, but betweentimes he tried to keep his mind off his godfather.

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000

  • I dressed my lady Dela in her best, a beautiful blue gown, and did her hair, and fixed the dinner, and in betweentimes I saw to myself, and to Viv and to the crew.

    Port Eternity Cherryh, C. J. 1982

  • He came every night for a week, bringing me candy and books and sending me flowers betweentimes.

    Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

  • He came every night for a week, bringing me candy and books and sending me flowers betweentimes.

    Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919

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