junior lightweight
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- noun
- /ˈdʒuːniər ˈlaɪtweɪt/
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peso ligero junior
- Alberto Machado celebrated a remarkable victory in a junior lightweight world title fight last July against Rafael Mensah.
- junior lightweight title
- junior lightweight world
Examples
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Gamache is preparing for a match to win the WBA junior lightweight title after improving his record to 24-0.
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Hey, who's bright idea was it to keep him at junior lightweight, anyway?
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More debutants can be seen at feather and junior-lightweight as Daud Yordan gate-crashed the former and Gamaliel Diaz the latter.
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The next boxing event will feature a thrilling junior lightweight bout between two rising stars in the sport.
How Heavy
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built: 'junior' indicates a lower or smaller category and 'lightweight' is itself a weight-class term, so together they clearly denote a lighter or subordinate variant of the lightweight division. While the exact numeric limit (130 lb) is specialist knowledge, the basic meaning 'a lighter weight-class than lightweight' is directly derivable from the constituents and would be understandable to learners who know both words.
Etymology
Junior lightweight comes from boxing naming: junior shows a 'smaller' form and lightweight is a 'weight class' for lighter fighters. So, junior lightweight means the smaller or lighter version of the lightweight group, the boxing division for fighters up to about 130 pounds.