featherweight

IPA: fˈɛðɝweɪt

A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 126 pounds or 57.2 kilograms.
A sportsman who fights in this division.
The lightest weight that may be carried by a racehorse.

Examples of "featherweight" in Sentences

* Those are "featherweight" lenses you see in that picture, there.
The word "featherweight" always carries with it the association with Willie Pep.
These include "rookie of the year" and the "featherweight" award, presented to the team with the lightest, fastest buggy.
*** And, because they didn't make kicky "featherweight" lenses back then, my lenses always came accompanied by GIGANTOR plastic frames.
Both it and its "featherweight" X201s sibling are lightweight, too: the X201 is under 3 pounds and the X201s shaves that down to under 2.5 pounds.
"featherweight" paper, copyrighted by Frank Smythson in 1916, and add that these characteristics have made it "internationally popular with many distinguished writers, journalists, travellers and explorers".
Spinrad says nice things about books by Paul Di Filippo and Eileen Gunn, wondering all the while why they were not published by big publishers rather than the "featherweight" small presses that did publish them, and why Di Filippo hasn't been more present on Hugo and Nebula ballots.