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lightweight

1 noun
     
Related topics: Other Sports
light‧weight1 [countable]
1 someone who has no importance or influence, or who does not have the ability to think deeply - used to show disapproval [≠ heavyweight]:
an intellectual lightweight
2DSO a boxer who weighs less than 61.24 kilograms, and who is heavier than a featherweight but lighter than a welterweight
3 someone or something of less than average weight
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