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Lightweight   Listen
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



... feet long, the next were fifty-five, the last were seventy. Everything about them is made as light as possible; so that they can skim along in about two feet of water at an outside speed of nearly fifty (land) miles an hour. They are really the thinnest of racing shells fitted with the strongest of lightweight engines. They are all armed with depth charges, which are bombs that go off under water at whatever depth you set them for when attacking submarines. The biggest scooters also carry torpedoes. The scooters did well in the war. Whenever the hovering aircraft had spotted a submarine ...
— Flag and Fleet - How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas • William Wood


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


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