junior heavyweight

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noun

a boxer weighing up to 190 pounds (85.5 kilograms), between light heavyweight and heavyweight.

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How to use junior heavyweight in a sentence

And then I did teachers all throughout elementary school and junior high for my friends.
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And an anonymous junior in a fraternity at Emory University feels similarly.
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You must now wear the same haircut & clothes you sported in junior high…forever.
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Hand-picked recruits were invited to rural England for basic infantry and junior command training.
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A year later, she enrolled in Dongguk University, where she is now a junior studying criminal justice.
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Directors were to us junior clerks, remote personalities, mythical beings dwelling on Olympian heights.
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The tall, lean youngster wore a junior pilot's bands on the sleeves of his blue uniform.
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With them were two civilians, both in rough shooting-jackets and breeches, one about forty-five, the other a few years his junior.
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The girls of the Junior class in modern history were filing out on Friday.
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The Junior class crowded into Miss Carringtons room and took their seats.
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