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UK
/fˈɛðəwˌeɪt/
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[ US /ˈfɛðɝˌweɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈfɛðɝˌweɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds
- weighs 126-139 pounds
How To Use featherweight In A Sentence
- That's no mean boast, since there's a surfeit of super-featherweight talent around.
- Henry Armstrong held world titles at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight simultaneously and won 150 fights.
- The former WBA world featherweight champion was also banned from driving for four years. Times, Sunday Times
- At the 2003 games, the USA qualified a spot in three divisions: featherweight, welterweight and super heavyweight.
- When the pair fought their hearts out for the honour of winning the World Boxing Council's featherweight belt, they showed us - amidst the blood and the brutality - all that is noble, honest and decent about the sweet science of bruising.
- The latest crop of shell pants are featherweight, bombproof, and cut for freedom of movement.
- His empathy with the fighter comes from his own experience as a boxer - he was a useful featherweight forced to retire early through injury.
- He was going to enter as a featherweight but was struggling to make that weight and he's more comfortable now at lightweight.
- So the Europeans tend to dominate the categories other than flyweight, featherweight and bantamweight.
- But Ncita laughed off the Tanzanian's assertion saying his charge was the best fighter from the junior bantamweight to the junior featherweight divisions.