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lightweight 1. a. a professional boxer weighing 130--135 pounds (59--61 kg) b. an amateur boxer weighing 57--60 kg (126--132 pounds) c. (as modifier): the lightweight contender 2. a wrestler in a similar weight category (usually 115--126 pounds (52--57 kg)) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| When the book was finished and I came to look around to see what had become of the team I had originally started out with-- Aunt Patsy Cooper, Aunt Betsy Hale, and two boys, and Rowena the lightweight heroine--they were nowhere to be seen; they had disappeared from the story some time or other. Kelly had been burning the wires East to every eligible lightweight, but they were tied up with dates and contracts. Captain Chalmers is a good horseman, of course but for a lightweight he has the worst hands I ever knew. |
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