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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 poundsplay

  Familiarity information: SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT (noun)


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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