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mid⋅cult

  [mid-kuhlt]
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–noun
1. (sometimes initial capital letter) the intellectual culture intermediate between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow culture.
–adjective
2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of such culture.
Origin:
1955–60, Americanism; mid(dle-brow) cult(ure); see masscult
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mid·cult   (mĭd'kŭlt')   
n.  A form of intellectual and artistic culture that has qualities of high culture and mass culture without being either.

[mid(dlebrow) + cult(ure).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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