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middleweight

/mid-l-weyt/US // ˈmɪd lˌweɪt //UK // (ˈmɪdəlˌweɪt) //

中量级,中量级的,中等身材,重量级

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Boxing. of or relating to middleweights: the middleweight division.
    • : able to carry up to 185 pounds.

Examples

  • Then, in surprising findings in the early 2010s, Auger Observatory scientists inferred from the shapes of the air showers that ultrahigh-energy rays are mostly middleweight nuclei, such as carbon, nitrogen and silicon.

  • And for another fifteen years he had been the guiding brain to a fine Middleweight.

  • Hickey was in the heavy middleweight class while he was still a bantam.

  • He looked like Pollyanna, after eight or ten shots at the middleweight title.

  • The middleweight thought that it was a joke on him, and was careful not to hit hard.

  • And he knocked out the second middleweight, and the third middleweight.