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featherweight
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun featherweight has 3 senses
- featherweight(n = noun.person) Array - an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds; Array is a kind of boxer, pugilist
- featherweight(n = noun.person) Array - weighs 126-139 pounds; Array is a kind of grappler, matman, wrestler
- featherweight(n = noun.person) Array - a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds; Array is a kind of gladiator, prizefighter
OXFORD DICTIONARY
featherweight, n.
1 a a weight in certain sports intermediate between bantamweight and lightweight, in the amateur boxing scale 54-7kg but differing for professionals, wrestlers, and weightlifters. b a sportsman of this weight.
2 a very light person or thing.
3 (usu. attrib.) a trifling or unimportant thing.
1 a a weight in certain sports intermediate between bantamweight and lightweight, in the amateur boxing scale 54-7kg but differing for professionals, wrestlers, and weightlifters. b a sportsman of this weight.
2 a very light person or thing.
3 (usu. attrib.) a trifling or unimportant thing.
THESAURUS
featherweight
Chinese boxer, bantam, bantamweight, banty, black belt, boxer, brown belt, bruiser, button, catchweight, chit, cluck, diminutive, dimwit, dumb, fighter, fingerling, fisticuffer, flyweight, forceless, heavyweight, imponderous, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, karate expert, light heavyweight, lightweight, middleweight, mini, minikin, minnow, minny, mouse, no-account, nubbin, of no account, palooka, peewee, pony, powerless, prizefighter, pug, pugilist, runt, savate expert, shrimp, slip, small fry, snip, snippet, sparrer, tit, unauthoritative, underweight, unheavy, wart, weak, weightless, welterweight, wisp, without any weight
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