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Heavyweight   Listen
adjective
heavyweight  adj.  Heaviest in a category; as, a heavyweight boxer.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Heavyweight" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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 ...
— Power Through Repose • Annie Payson Call

... become heavyweight champion without being able to take as well as give punishment. Joe's attacker tucked his chin into his shoulder, fighter style, and moved in throwing off the effects of the karate blows. Somehow, he seemed considerably ...
— Frigid Fracas • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... Women, progressive politics, and prize-fights, and before the card game began it had settled on the last-named, chiefly because of my own vainglorious description of adventures at Reno, Nevada, at the time of the Jeffries-Johnson battle for the heavyweight championship of the world. I remember telling with some gusto of my first newspaper interview—one with "Bob" Fitzsimmons, then the Old Man of the ring, and "Gentleman" Jim Corbett, who was Jeffries' ...
— The Log of a Noncombatant • Horace Green

... great boxing boom is at its height. A fight arranged between Smasher Mike and the famous heavyweight champion. Mauler Mills, is arousing intense excitement throughout the country. Nothing whatever is known of the Smasher, and the betting is therefore 100 to 1 against him. Young Lord Tamerton is at this time in desperate financial straits. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914 • Various



Words linked to "Heavyweight" :   giant, hulk, matman, large person, personage, influential person, behemoth, super heavyweight, gladiator, prizefighter, pugilist, colossus, titan, light heavyweight, whale



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