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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))


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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.
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Kelly had been burning the wires East to every eligible lightweight, but they were tied up with dates and contracts.
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Captain Chalmers is a good horseman, of course but for a lightweight he has the worst hands I ever knew.
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