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Heavyweight   /hˈɛviwˌeɪt/   Listen
Heavyweight

noun
1.
An amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds.
2.
A wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds.
3.
A professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds.
4.
A very large person; impressive in size or qualities.  Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale.
5.
A person of exceptional importance and reputation.  Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan.



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"Heavyweight" Quotes from Famous Books



... my dear," she said, patting the fleshy girl's plump cheek. "But you want to make new friends—you wish to be admired, I know. It will not be pleasant to gain the reputation of being Ardmore's heavyweight, ...
— Ruth Fielding At College - or The Missing Examination Papers • Alice B. Emerson
... 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 force here, and a sensitive ...
— Power Through Repose • Annie Payson Call
... heavyweight upon his head, his feet were nailed to the floor, and his arms bound tight beside him. He seemed to himself to rage and struggle with the strength of a madman; but his hand only stirred and quivered a little as it lay ...
— The Hill of Dreams • Arthur Machen


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