middleweight
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middleweight
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From middle + weight.
noun middleweights
- A weight class in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports
- A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc
- A class in between heavy and light. 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.
- An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior. 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.
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Closest in meaning: heavy, weight, super middleweight, medium, midcard, middler, middling, middling sort, middle way, mean, mass, middlescence, middle age, mediocrity, mediocre, middlescent
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noun a weight class in professional boxing
| Deutsch | Mittelgewicht |
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noun a boxer who fights in this division
| Deutsch | Mittelgewichtler, Mittelgewichtlerin, Mittelgewicht |
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title = {middleweight},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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