ROBINSON, SUGAR RAY


Meaning of ROBINSON, SUGAR RAY in English

Robinson, Sugar Ray BrE AmE

(1921–89) a very successful US ↑ boxer who was world ↑ champion in the 1940s and 1950s, first as a ↑ welterweight (=boxer weighing between 63.5 and 66.5 kilos) , and then as a ↑ middleweight (=boxer weighing between 70 and 72.5 kilos)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.