light welterweight

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   an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 140 pounds

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Questions about light welterweight

What does light welterweight mean?

light welterweight means "an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 140 pounds".

Is light welterweight a common word?

light welterweight is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.