straddler

straddler
 n.— «Alfred Lubrano looks at the issues facing “straddlers,” those who, like himself, carry their working-class upbringings into the middle class.» —“Hot under the collar” by Michael Kesterton Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) May 4, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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