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noun
Lightweight  n.  
1.
One of less than average weight; specif.: In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighing not more than 133 pounds (U. S. amateur rules 135 pounds, Eng. 140 pounds).
2.
A person of small importance or mental ability, especially one who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous. (Colloq., Chiefly U. S.)
Synonyms: whippersnapper, jackanapes.
3.
A wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds.





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"Lightweight" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lee!" And Joseph had a pair of fightin' eyes; And his granddad was a Johnny, as perhaps you might surmise; Then "Robert Bruce MacPherson!" And the Yankee squad was done With "Isaac Abie Cohen!" once a lightweight champion. ...
— Poems of American Patriotism • Brander Matthews (Editor)
... now and then dislodging a stone and sending it clattering to the depths below. Two hundred yards ahead, at a sharp, angular point, one of the Yuma scouts stood frantically waving his hand, and thither Stannard turned his ponderous way. No lightweight he, and the pace and climb began to tell. Eager young soldiers were at his heels, but grim old Stauffer, the first sergeant, growled his orders not to crowd; hearing which their captain half turned with ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King


Words linked to "Lightweight" :   cypher, grappler, prizefighter, wrestler, matman, gladiator, cipher, nonentity, whippersnapper, nobody, light, pugilist, junior lightweight


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