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middleweight(dictionary)

middleweight (iou)



middleweight noun & adjective. L19.
[from MIDDLE adjective + WEIGHT noun.]
A. noun. A weight at which boxing etc. matches are made, intermediate between welterweight and heavyweight, in the amateur boxing scale now being between 71 and 75 kg, though differing for professionals, wrestlers, and weightlifters, and according to time and place; a boxer etc. of this weight. L19.
b. adjective. (Of a boxer etc.) that is a middleweight; of or pertaining to middleweights. E20.
Phrases: junior middleweight (of) a weight in professional boxing of between 66.7 and 69.8 kg; (designating) a boxer of this weight. light middleweight (of) a weight in amateur boxing of between 67 and 71 kg; (designating) a boxer of this weight.