lightweight: meaning and definitions

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What is lightweight?

What is lightweight?

  • One that weighs relatively little or less than average.
  • A weight division in professional boxing having an upper limit of 135 pounds (60.7 kilograms), between junior lightweight and junior welterweight.
  • A boxer competing in this weight division.
  • A similar weight division in other sports, such as weightlifting.
  • A contestant in this weight division.
  • A person of little ability, intelligence, influence, or importance.
  • Weighing relatively little; not heavy: lightweight clothing; a lightweight wood.
  • Sports Of, relating to, or characteristic of a lightweight: the lightweight title.
  • Having no significance or influence: a lightweight intellect.

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