Definition of "welter-weight" [welter-weight]

• Between lightweight and middleweight (adjective)
• A boxer weighing more than a lightweight boxer and less than a middleweight boxer; someone boxing in the welterweight class (noun)

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• "If Treble Ann had been born a boy, she woulda been a champ welter-weight."
• "I was ready to call it for her, like a ref putting a battered welter-weight out of his misery."
• "That boy put up a fight like a welter-weight cinnamon bear; but, at last, we got him down in the bottom of the buggy and drove away."