Definition of "mid-atlantic" []

• Of a region of the United States generally including Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; and usually New York; Pennsylvania; New Jersey (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Hey, they can have some of the snow dumped in the mid-atlantic."
• "This probably is similar to tectonic spreading in the mid-atlantic rift."
• "A similar problem arose before the term wheelbrows was coined and we had the rather ugly mid-atlantic fudguards."