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featherweight definition

feather·weight (-wāt′)

noun

  1. any person or thing of comparatively light weight or small size
  2. an unimportant person or thing
  3. a boxer between a junior featherweight and a junior lightweight, with a maximum weight of 126 pounds (57.15 kg)
  4. the minimum weight that a racehorse may carry in a handicap

adjective

  1. of featherweights
  2. light or trivial

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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