welter-weight

短语

词形变化

welter-weights 复数 welter-weights

别名

welterweight

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    a boxer weighing more than a lightweight boxer and less than a middleweight boxer; someone boxing in the welterweight class

    政治 体育 军事
  2. 2.

    A weight of 28 pounds (or 40 pounds: a heavy welterweight), sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races.

    体育 动物学
adj.
  1. 1.

    between lightweight and middleweight

    政治 体育 军事

词汇关系

名词

上位词 8

weight boxer wrestler gladiator grappler prizefighter pugilist weight class

词源

Originally “heavyweight horseman” (1832), from welter (“heavyweight horseman”) + weight. Boxing sense 1896.

来源：wiktionary