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Heavyweight   /hˈɛviwˌeɪt/   Listen
noun
heavyweight  n.  
1.
A wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds.
2.
A boxer who weighs more than 195 pounds.
3.
A very large person.
Synonyms: giant, hulk.
4.
A person of exceptional importance and reputation.
Synonyms: colossus, behemoth, giant, titan.



adjective
heavyweight  adj.  Heaviest in a category; as, a heavyweight boxer.






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"Heavyweight" Quotes from Famous Books



... In lifting a heavyweight, as in nursing the sick, the relief is immediate from all straining in the back, by pressing hard with the feet on the floor and thinking the power of lifting in the legs. There is true economy of nervous ...
— Power Through Repose • Annie Payson Call

... reporters. I got in with him because his chief assistant and adopted son, John Matthews, was a classmate of mine in the university. John, if he lives long enough, will be as great a scientist as his chief. John, or Jack as I call him, is over six feet tall and would have made any professional heavyweight step some if he had taken to ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew



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