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Thesaurus: lightweight
weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use
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- adj. weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use
- adj. having no importance or influence
- n. a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- n. someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
- n. an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
- n. a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
- n. A class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/weight">weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division.
- (a) In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighingnot more than 133 pounds (U. S. amateur rules 135 pounds, Eng. 140 pounds). (b) A person of small impotance or mental ability. [Colloq., Chiefly U. S.] Light in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animal who is a lightweight.
- Light in weight, as a coin; specif., applied to a man or animalwho is a lightweight.
- j:73/n:27 n. a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds n. an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds n. a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds s. weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use