mid-Atlantic

[ mid-at-lan-tik ]

/ ˈmɪd ætˈlæn tɪk /

using, manifesting, or characterized by a mixture of American and British behavior or speech.

Example sentences from the Web for mid-atlantic

In the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Plains, and Far West, secession sympathizers top out at 22 percent of the population.

America’s Slumbering Secession Obsession |James Poulos |September 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
East coasters might be aware of a mild autumn breeze currently making landfall over the mid-Atlantic coast.

America, Meet Sandy |Justin Green |October 29, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
He speaks in a strangely alienating and unattractive Mid-Atlantic English drawl.

Monaco Princess's Gilded Cage |Tom Sykes |July 2, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
I fear on this there is no mid-Atlantic position where both sides can meet.

The Lockerbie Outrage Gap |Katty Kay |August 20, 2009 |DAILY BEAST

But the uproar over "The Prince and The Perv"—as the British headlines screamed—mysteriously drowned in the Mid-Atlantic.

Jeffrey Epstein's Society Friends Close Ranks |Alexandra Wolfe |April 1, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Such a gale overtook the Virtuous Lady, homeward bound, in mid-Atlantic.

Shining Ferry |Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
I fancied that now we were bending eastward, out over the great basin pit of the mid-Atlantic area.

Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 |Various
On board one of the emigrant steamships, the England, a very severe epidemic arose in mid-Atlantic in April.

A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) |Charles Creighton
Its not often we pick up a man alive and drifting in mid-Atlantic.

The Sorrows of Satan |Marie Corelli
The voyage was uneventful except that I was nearly left behind in mid-Atlantic.

A Labrador Doctor |Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

mid-Atlantic

characterized by a blend of British and American styles, elements, etc a disc jockey's mid-Atlantic accent