lightweight as a noun: - 1
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as an adjective: - 1
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lightweight
noun
1 lightweight
A professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds.
2 lightweight
Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous.
synonyms: jackanapes, whippersnapper.
Dutch: druipneus, loopneus, snotaap, snotneus
3 lightweight
An amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds.
Dutch: lichtgewicht
4 lightweight
A wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds.
Dutch: lichtgewicht
adjective
1 lightweight
Weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use.
2 lightweight
Having no importance or influence.
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