heavy breather

noun

1. a person who breathes stertorously or with difficulty

2. an anonymous telephone caller who imitates such sounds, as being suggestive of sexual excitement

Example Sentences

Years ago in the early 1990s, Willy T. Ribbs, the first Black man to compete in the Indianapolis 500, sought a deep-pocketed partner, a heavy breather, as he calls them, to help catapult him into the victory lane.

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Temperature moderated, my attention then wandered to the sounds of a heavy breather two rows in front of me, and later to the squeaks emanating from the heating pipes.

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He's a heavy breather, he snuffles like a piglet and he's an incorrigible face-licker.

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“Is he the best that’s left? I’m sorry, but I’m not putting my future in the hands of this heavy breather.”

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The prospect of a reunion gives the novel its zing; it’s hard to shed a tear for Charles, “a heavy breather, a snorer, a guffawer,” as well as a defiantly lazy father and an unfaithful jerk.

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