Multihyphenate
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person with a hyphenated profession e.g. singer-songwriter, actor-director, but especially a person with several such roles.
"Interviewees, including the scientist Richard Sternberg, claim that questioning Darwinism led to their expulsion from the scientific fold […], while our genial audience surrogate, the actor and multihyphenate Ben Stein, nods sympathetically."
Example
More examples"Interviewees, including the scientist Richard Sternberg, claim that questioning Darwinism led to their expulsion from the scientific fold […], while our genial audience surrogate, the actor and multihyphenate Ben Stein, nods sympathetically."
Etymology
From multi- + hyphenate.
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