heavyweight
/ˈhɛvɪweɪt
/noun
1 [mass noun] A weight in boxing and other sports, typically the heaviest category. In the amateur boxing scale it ranges from 81 to 91 kg.The World's allow one entrant per division per country, while the World Games are one men's lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight per continent....
- The German was world heavyweight boxing champion from 1930-32.
- He also happens to be a two-time world heavyweight boxing champ.
1.1 [count noun] A heavyweight boxer or other competitor.Where must it be ranked among the great clashes between light heavyweights and heavyweights?...
- The boxers set a brisk pace for heavyweights, both relying on speed of hand and continual movement.
- It was because they weren't heavyweights, and to expect them to compete with the heavyweight champion, who held the premier title in boxing, was ludicrous.
2A person or thing of above-average weight.Velocities ranged from over 1,200 feet per second for the lighter weight bullets to just under 1,000 feet per second for the heavyweights....
- Tipping the scales at a whopping 28500, this is the heavyweight of the bunch.
- This would have been unlikely two months ago but the heavyweight darts legend is a man reborn, thanks to his participation in this project.
2.1A person of influence or importance in a particular sphere: a political heavyweight with national recognition...
- American political heavyweights and reclusive Hollywood stars will come together in New York next month to help two Irish men launch a new glossy magazine for dog lovers.
- So why did people disregard what the factional leaders or heavyweights or number crunchers were telling them?
- By the time he ran for the Senate in 1984 he was already known nationally as a political heavyweight.
adjective
1Of above-average weight: heavyweight curtains...
- With the weight penalty (a heavyweight publication), either hand carry it on the plane, or send it early for the festive season by sea mail!
- A slimming guru has received an award from a no-longer-so heavyweight TV critic for bringing Weight Watchers classes to Rochdale.
- Choose high-quality, mediumweight fleece - lightweight fleece will not produce a fluffy bloom and two layers of heavyweight fleece are too bulky.
1.1Serious, important, or influential: heavyweight news coverage...
- With a serious heavyweight training behind him, his food is already to die for.
- Some got merely dozens of votes but very many were serious heavyweight contenders with a wide range of experience.
- Perhaps we have been wrong in thinking him a serious, heavyweight politician.
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