flyweightfly‧weight /ˈflaɪweɪt/ noun [countable] 
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ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
word sets- Boxing: Gold medals are awarded in light flyweight, bantamweight, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and heavyweight.
- For instance, judo flyweight Karen Briggs grappling on with a dislocated shoulder shoved back in its socket.
- He did not relish training, though the flyweight limit was eight stones.
- His championship-winning days began in 1983 and he lost the flyweight title two years ago, since when he has remained unbeaten.
- In Jimmy Wilde, the world flyweight champion from 1916, Britain produced one of the very greatest boxers of all time.
- The Gorbals produced flyweight boxers and hard drinkers in profusion in the 1930s, and Lynch died there 6 August 1946.
- Yuri Arbachakov, a talented but untested flyweight.
WORD SETS► Other Sports
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► champion
a boxer who weighs less than 50.80 kilograms, and who is heavier than a strawweight but lighter than a bantamweight· In Jimmy Wilde, the world flyweight champion from 1916, Britain produced one of the very greatest boxers of all time.· Benny Lynch, the world flyweight champion from 1935 to 1938, was their folk-hero.
► title· His championship-winning days began in 1983 and he lost the flyweight title two years ago, since when he has remained unbeaten.· Next stop, hopefully, the light flyweight title held by Dickie Camacho.