middleweight
a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds (72.5 kilograms).
Boxing. of or relating to middleweights: the middleweight division.
(of a horse, especially a hunter) able to carry up to 185 pounds (83.9 kilograms).
Origin of middleweight
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How to use middleweight in a sentence
Then, in surprising findings in the early 2010s, Auger Observatory scientists inferred from the shapes of the air showers that ultrahigh-energy rays are mostly middleweight nuclei, such as carbon, nitrogen and silicon.
Cosmic Map of Ultrahigh-Energy Particles Points to Long-Hidden Treasures | Natalie Wolchover | April 27, 2021 | Quanta MagazineAnd for another fifteen years he had been the guiding brain to a fine middleweight.
Vital Ingredient | Gerald VanceHickey was in the heavy middleweight class while he was still a bantam.
Skippy Bedelle | Owen JohnsonHe looked like Pollyanna, after eight or ten shots at the middleweight title.
Occasion for Disaster | Gordon Randall GarrettThe middleweight thought that it was a joke on him, and was careful not to hit hard.
Famous Flyers | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
And he knocked out the second middleweight, and the third middleweight.
Famous Flyers | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
British Dictionary definitions for middleweight
/ (ˈmɪdəlˌweɪt) /
a professional boxer weighing 154–160 pounds (70–72.5 kg)
an amateur boxer weighing 71–75 kg (157–165 pounds)
(as modifier): a middleweight contest
a wrestler in a similar weight category (usually 172–192 pounds (78–87 kg))
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