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noun
a baseball player who makes many extra-base hits.
a very important or influential person: the secretary of state and other heavy hitters.
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Origin of heavy hitter First recorded in 1975–80
OTHER WORDS FROM heavy hitter heavy-hitter, adjective
Words nearby heavy hitter heavy going ,
heavy-handed ,
heavy hand, with a ,
heavy-hearted ,
heavy heart, with a ,
heavy hitter ,
heavy hydrogen ,
heavy ion ,
heavy-laden ,
heavy lifting ,
heavy metal
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How to use heavy hitter in a sentence The travel gear industry lost a heavy hitter yesterday, as Eagle Creek announced that it will shut down operations by the end of this year.
The story of a man and his relationship with an octopus in the cold, cold water off Cape Town’s peninsula triumphed over a number of heavy hitter s.
Underground heavy hitter s such as the Jesus Lizard, Samiam and Jawbreaker never replicated Nirvana’s success.
We’ve interviewed some heavy hitter s, including notables like Mark Cuban, Kirsten Green and Roelof Botha during our first two seasons.
This at a time when we’re dealing with two major health things, health disparities and inequities — both heavy hitter s.
The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.
“There is a heavy security presence but nothing has changed,” agrees Father Javier.
The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.
“JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.
Up till then I was just a dog-assed heavy, one of the posse.
The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.
Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
Hunter-Weston despite his heavy losses will be advancing to-morrow which should divert pressure from you.
Heavy firing continued all that afternoon, inflicting great loss on the rebels, whilst the Spaniards lost one soldier.
The keen resentment had faded from his face, but an immense reproach was there—a heavy, helpless, appealing reproach.
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British Dictionary definitions for heavy hitter
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Other Idioms and Phrases with heavy hitter
An important or influential individual or organization. For example, This publishing house is one of the heavy hitters in the textbook industry . This expression originated in sports such as boxing, where it literally meant “hitting hard,” and was transferred to other enterprises in the mid-1900s.
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