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heavyweight
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Word definitions for heavyweight in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
noun and adj., 1857 of horses; 1877 of fighters; from heavy + weight . Figuratively, of importance, from 1928.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a heavyweight/middleweight/featherweight etc champion (= one in a particular class of boxers, organized according to their weight ) ▪ Graham's reign as middleweight champion ended last night. light heavyweight COLLOCATIONS ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of the heavyweight boxing (or similar) division. 2 Being relatively heavy. 3 Being a leader in one's field. n. 1 A very large, heavy, or impressive person. 2 The professional boxing weight division for boxers weighing more than 190 pounds; a boxer ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. heaviest in a category or of a heavyweight category (more than 190 pounds for prizefighters); "a heavyweight boxer" n. an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds a professional boxer who weighs more ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
heavyweight \heavyweight\ n. a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds. a boxer who weighs more than 195 pounds. a very large person. Syn: giant, hulk. a person of exceptional importance and reputation. Syn: colossus, behemoth, giant, titan.
Usage examples of heavyweight.
Starovyd, born Dnepropetrovsk, 1956, also known as the Wrestler on account of his having once been the army heavyweight wrestling champion.
Sarah could sing, and Mel Torme, and Dave McKenna was the piano player, and The Four Seasons, in New York, for that one meal, and Sokol Blosser Pinot Noir, and Catamount beer, and German shorthaired pointers, and Ali maybe was the best heavyweight, though Ray Robinson was, of course, the best ever, any weight, and Krug champagne, and Faulkner, and Vermeer, and Stan Kenton and Mike Royko, and fitful sleep.
His face, with its prominent supraorbital ridges, long hooked nose, and massive chin, could have been that of a good-looking heavyweight champion.
He was aware that the sun shone brightly, the sky was blue, but the big swell of the apartment house, heavyweight vaselike baroque , made him feel that the twelfth-story room was like a china cabinet into which he was locked, and the satanic hen-legs of wrinkled yellow clawing his papers made him scream out.
Judge Mumphrey and the committeemen and all the other heavyweights who had to have their rings kissed?
Spider McCoy is not monkeying with heavyweights since he gets Tearing Terry.
In complete contrast, the stainless-steel toecaps of his heavyweight engineer boots were ground to a brilliant shine.
Backbreaker Ames called him out on New Angola, and though Ames was seven feet tall, 400 pounds of rock-hard muscle, and a former freehand heavyweight champion, the young Widowmaker killed him in hand-to-hand combat.
But in his clumsiness he stepped upon a wooden storm drain grate, the which, overcome by the bantamweight gnome and the heavyweight sack, broke beneath his feet.
Cornelia's father, Cinna, was another of the political heavyweights Marius was flattering and working to control.
You know who listened to Leo's whole sad story and arranged it with Judge Mumphrey and the committeemen and all the other heavyweights who had to have their rings kissed?
Light heavyweight was plugs in the _Times_ from Braven Dyer, adulation from the old man and his Jew-baiting cronies and being a big cheese as long as I didn't leave Glassell Park and Lincoln Heights.
There were ambassadors, overlords, military heavyweights, megastars from all the arts, and titans of commerce and industry, intellectual cynosures, and academic and scientific luminaries.
When they finish feeding the derelicts tonight, there will be a high stack of dirty dishes I and you are looking at the heavyweight champion dishwasher in all of Mexico and los Estados Unidos.
The boxing hall in the great complex of the Reichssportfeld was filled to capacity for the final bout in the light heavyweight division, and there were ranks of brown-uniformed storm-troopers lining each side of the aisle from the dressingrooms, forming an honour guard for the contenders as they came down to the ring.