midcult

midcult
/mid"kult'/, n.
1. (sometimes cap.) the intellectual culture intermediate between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow culture.
adj.
2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of such culture.
[1955-60, Amer.; mid(dle-brow) cult(ure); see MASSCULT]

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