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Welter-weight
Welter-weight
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(boxing)
Between
lightweight
and
middleweight.
adjective
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(boxing) A
boxer
weighing more than a
lightweight
boxer and less than a
middleweight
boxer; someone boxing in the welterweight class.
noun
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Origin of welter-weight
Originally “heavyweight horseman” (1832), from
welter
(“heavyweight horseman”) +
weight
. Boxing sense 1896.
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