multi-hyphenate
n.— «Figuratively, he’s a multi-hyphenate. A television-writer-director-turrned-film-writer-director.» —“Pogostin: Gambling Man and Multi-Hyphenate” by Wayne Warga L.A. times Mar. 30, 1969. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Old. Elderly. Senior. Why are we so uncomfortable when we talk about reaching a certain point in life? An 82-year-old seeks a more positive term to describe how she feels about her age. And: a linguist helps solve a famous kidnapping case, using the...
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...