noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a heavyweight/middleweight/featherweight etc champion (= one in a particular class of boxers, organized according to their weight )
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Graham's reign as middleweight champion ended last night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Darlington featherweight Jacob Smith signed a pro contract yesterday.
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Indeed, he was to train as a featherweight boxer during his year as a student at Battersea Polytechnic.
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Just up two flights of stairs was quite enough, thank you - you're no featherweight .
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Rab thought of Winnie, her featherweight and money in the bank.
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The problem seems to be that Cleese and co-writer Iain Johnstone have taken the featherweight demands of the romantic comedy to heart.
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You can only speculate at how Phoenix featherweight Louie Espinoza would have fared in the bout.