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- noun Plural form of
bantamweight .
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Examples
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But Mr. Axelrod implies that those "bantamweights" from the sticks should take their beating and ask for another.
David Axelrod on Sarah Palin: "For someone who makes the point that she is not from Washington, she looks like she would fit in very well there." Ann Althouse 2008
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But Mr. Axelrod implies that those "bantamweights" from the sticks should take their beating and ask for another.
Althouse 2008
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If I win, I will be opening the door for the bigger fights against big name bantamweights and junior featherweights including Israel Vasquez, "Gerry said.
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In live coverage on promoter Don King's donkingtv. com, Tyson called undercard fights Saturday night before bantamweights Yonnhy Perez and Joseph Agbeko fought in the main event.
Fox's World Series TV ratings up 36% from 2008's record low mark 2009
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Though Kevin and the two bantamweights are much smaller than most of the bristling young white men, there is no hint of animosity, no testing.
Zebratown Greg Donaldson 2010
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As most Scottish fighters were bantamweights, it was quite a claim to fame.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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Maybe the fact that bantamweights Quayle and W won their elections over intellectual giants Bentsen, Gore and Kerry is making MoDo nervous.
Republicans "have a tradition of nominating fun, bantamweight cheerleaders from the West, like the previous Miss Congeniality types Dan Quayle and W." Ann Althouse 2008
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Perot, who only looks like a heavyweight because he is in the ring with those bantamweights, may soon be seen as even less than a sound bite.
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Every three minutes or so two brown bantamweights are being pulled apart.
Beach Road Patterson, James, 1947- 2006
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Another strength of the index is that it compares companies with similar competitors, just as bantamweight boxers square off against other bantamweights, and welterweights against welterweights.
THE NEW MARKET LEADERS Fred Wiersema 2001
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