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Is there a word in English to designate the person who is my husband's brother-in-law? Saying that he is my brother-in-law implies, to me, that either he is my sister's husband or my husband's brother. The person I'm describing is my husband's sister's husband.

I don't need this word often, but the person in question comes up in conversation just often enough to cause me to trip over this too many times.

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The funny thing is that although I have (only!) 13 first cousins, and hundreds of second cousins and cousins removed, my family does not make a distinction between them. We also don't make much of a distinction among in-laws.

I guess we're close that way.