borderland

(-land′)

noun

  1. land constituting or near a border
  2. a vague or uncertain condition that is not quite one thing or the other

See borderland in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. a. Land located on or near a frontier.
    b. The fringe: a shadowy figure who lived on the borderland of the drug scene.
  2. An indeterminate area, situation, or condition: the borderland between sanity and insanity.

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