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flyweight
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun flyweight has 2 senses
OXFORD DICTIONARY
flyweight, n.
1 a weight in certain sports intermediate between light flyweight and bantamweight, in the amateur boxing scale 48-51 kg but differing for professionals, wrestlers, and weightlifters.
2 a sportsman of this weight.
1 a weight in certain sports intermediate between light flyweight and bantamweight, in the amateur boxing scale 48-51 kg but differing for professionals, wrestlers, and weightlifters.
2 a sportsman of this weight.
Idiom
light flyweight
1 a weight in amateur boxing up to 48 kg.
2 an amateur boxer of this weight.
1 a weight in amateur boxing up to 48 kg.
2 an amateur boxer of this weight.
THESAURUS
flyweight
Chinese boxer, bantamweight, black belt, boxer, brown belt, bruiser, catchweight, featherweight, fighter, fisticuffer, heavyweight, karate expert, light heavyweight, lightweight, middleweight, palooka, prizefighter, pug, pugilist, savate expert, sparrer, welterweight
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