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Middleweight

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Noun
  1. 1
    A weight class in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports uncountable
  2. 2
    a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds wordnet
  3. 3
    A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc countable
  4. 4
    a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds wordnet
  5. 5
    A class in between heavy and light. broadly, countable, uncountable

    "This would give the U.S. Army five parachute-capable brigades, or two "middleweight" infantry brigades, or six light infantry brigades, or six airmobile brigades in only two multicapable divisions."

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  1. 6
    an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds wordnet
  2. 7
    An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior. broadly, countable

    "And it's interesting because in a way they're much more of a design company, and they've got their juniors and their seniors and their middleweights and all this stuff."

Etymology

From middle + weight.

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