mid

adj

1. (no-comparative)Occupying a middle position; middle.

   “Passing through the silent village, he heard the clock tell the mid hour of night.”

   “Though teams from China have hoisted the Summoner’s Cup, which goes to the Worlds champion, it’s always been South Korean mid laners who have starred on those teams. Erzberger said Knight wants to be the first Chinese mid laner to hoist that trophy — and maybe become a national treasure himself.”

2. (no-comparative)Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ].
3. (no-comparative)Mediocre; of middling quality.

   “The song is one of his best, but its real power comes from the accompanying, highly-stylized video wherein Lil Nas X breaks out of a prison populated with Black gay men (and, for an unspecified reason, Jack Harlow in an unseemly role as the Straight White Savior who delivers a verse that is mid at best and inappropriate at worst).”

   “I’ve watched all of these shows. They’re not bad. They’re simply … mid. Which is what makes them, frustratingly, as emblematic of the current moment in TV as their stars’ previous shows were of the ambitions of the past.”

   “In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback? [title]”

   “...it just seems devoid of passion; it's just so generic, so mid, and in some aspects just bad that it seems like it's a game that just exists to exist... (02:20)”

4. (Internet, broadly, no-comparative)Trashy; low-quality.

noun

1. (Internet, slang, uncountable)The middle of the battlefield.

   “We need to retake mid.”

2. (archaic)Middle.

   “About the mid of night come to my tent.”

3. A mid-range.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of mobile information device.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of militarized international (or interstate) dispute.

adv

1. (Internet, not-comparable, slang)To or into the middle of the battlefield.

   “Everyone head mid.”

prep

1. (archaic)Amid.

   “mid the best”

   “To shelter quivering natures, wrap them round / In downy softness, and impalace them / Mid fair magnificence, where all is found / Abundant as the longing heart can wish.”

2. With.

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:mid.”