light middleweight
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5.3
- noun
- /laɪt ˈmɪdəlˌweɪt/
- Specialized
:
peso ligero
- Light middleweight.
- light middleweight (156 pounds)
- light middleweight (156 pounds)
Examples
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This no-belt lower-weight fight accepting pretender needs to prove he is worthy of a shot at the best welterweight in the world and possibly the best light middleweight in the world.
Blog text (23) -
Trout wins by majority decision after cutting up Cotto, who has not got big power at light middleweight.
Blog text (23) -
Because a name was needed when it became certain that the boxer was going to be flown to the casino on the Indian reservation in Connecticut for a UBA preliminary light-middleweight event, which would be televised on HBO, no less.
Fiction book (2000) -
What got Yusaf into boxing: his brother Stevie Mack (a light middleweight from the 1980s), his father, and his trainer Percy (aka Buster) Custus.
Blog text (29) -
David Reid won a gold medal in the light middleweight division at the Olympics.
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He recently moved up to the light middleweight class after gaining weight from his training.
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As a skilled boxer, she aims to become the champion in the light middleweight category.
Synonyms
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6.4
A boxer in a weight class with a limit of 154 pounds or 70 kilograms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is transparently compositional: 'light' modifies 'middleweight' to indicate a lighter version of the middleweight category, so the overall meaning is directly derivable from the constituents. This modifier+noun pattern for weight classes is cross-linguistically common and, given knowledge of 'light' and 'middleweight', a B1 learner can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Light middleweight comes from boxing and simply names a weight group between two others. The word middleweight means a fighter of medium weight and adding light shows this group is the lighter version, so it means 'a weight class for fighters heavier than welterweights but lighter than middleweights'.