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SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does super heavyweight mean?
• SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT (noun)
The noun SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT has 1 sense:
1. an amateur boxer who weighs more than 201 pounds
Familiarity information: SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An amateur boxer who weighs more than 201 pounds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("super heavyweight" is a kind of...):
boxer; pugilist (someone who fights with his fists for sport)
Context examples
At a time when the majority of mammals were shrew- or mouse-sized—mere shadows of dinosaurs—Vintana was a super heavyweight, estimated to have had a body mass of about 20 pounds, two or three times the size of an adult groundhog today.
(Scientists discover fossil of bizarre groundhog-like mammal on Madagascar, NSF)
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