Definition of Middleweights

1. Noun. (plural of middleweight) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Middleweights

1. middleweight [n] - See also: middleweight

Lexicographical Neighbors of Middleweights

middlebrows
middled
middlegame
middleman
middlemen
middlemost
middleoftheroader
middleoftheroaders
middler
middlers
middles
middlescence
middleware
middlewares
middleweight
middleweights (current term)
middlewoman
middlewomen
middling
middling plantation
middlingly
middlings
middorsal
middst
middy
middy blouse
midecamycin 4''-acylase
midecamycin 4''-propionyltransferase
midengine
midengined

Literary usage of Middleweights

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing As a Process by Carol B. Olson (1996)
""We have three different weight categories: the lightweights, the middleweights, and the heavyweights. The lightweights we call the Cream-puff Cuties, ..."

2. Oversight of the Professional Boxing Industry: Hearing Before the Committee edited by John McCain (2000)
"... (such as heavyweights like Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, middleweights like Roy Jones, and welterweights like Felix Trinidad and Oscar de la Hoya). ..."

3. Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac (1921)
"US, won .second place In middleweights by beating AM Frantz. US, by default; WS Maurer, Ü. S., beat JR Redmond, US, for second place in light heavyweights. ..."

4. Muhammad Ali & Company by Thomas Hauser (1998)
"... fighters of average size weren't taken seriously until the early 1800s when English fighters weighing 154 pounds or less became known as "middleweights. ..."

5. From Doniphan to Verdun: The Official History of the 140th Infantry by Evan Alexander Edwards (1920)
"The third boxing bout of six rounds had been a particularly vicious one between two evenly matched middleweights. Many blows had been struck that would have ..."

6. The Official History of the Three Hundred and Fourth Engineer Regiment by Army, 304th Engineer Regiment, United States (1920)
"... while the latter proved to be one of the best middleweights in the AEF One of the main means by which the monotony of the winter season was broken was ..."

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