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heavy hitter
noun
- a baseball player who makes many extra-base hits.
- a very important or influential person:
the secretary of state and other heavy hitters.
heavy hitter
noun
- informal.another term for big hitter
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Other 51Թ Forms
- y-t adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of heavy hitter1
First recorded in 1975–80
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Idioms and Phrases
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.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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