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heav⋅y⋅weight

  [hev-ee-weyt]
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–adjective
1. heavy in weight.
2. of more than average weight or thickness: a coat of heavyweight material.
3. noting or pertaining to a boxer, wrestler, etc., of the heaviest competitive class, esp. a professional boxer weighing more than 175 lb. (79.4 kg).
4. of or pertaining to the weight class or division of such boxers: a heavyweight bout.
5. (of a riding horse, esp. a hunter) able to carry up to 205 lb. (93 kg).
6. designating a person, company, nation, or other entity that is extremely powerful, influential, or important: a team of heavyweight lawyers.
–noun
7. a person of more than average weight.
8. a heavyweight boxer or wrestler.
9. a person, company, nation, or other entity that is powerful and influential: a price hike initiated by the heavyweights in the industry.
Origin:
1850–55; heavy + weight
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heav·y·weight   (hěv'ē-wāt')   
n.  

  1. One of above average weight.

    1. The heaviest weight division in professional boxing, having no upper limit, with contestants usually weighing more than 190 pounds (85.5 kilograms).

    2. A boxer competing in this weight division.

    3. A similar weight division in other sports, such as weightlifting.

    4. A contestant in this weight division.

  3. Informal A person of great importance or influence.

heav'y·weight' adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
heavyweight

  1. n.
    an important person; a successful person; a leader. : Mr. Wilson is a heavyweight in local government.
  2. mod.
    important; successful. : Vince is one of the heavyweight operators in this business.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

heavyweight
High-overhead; baroque; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Especially used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory use and startup time. Emacs is a heavyweight editor; X is an *extremely* heavyweight window system. This term isn't pejorative, but one hacker's heavyweight is another's elephantine and a third's monstrosity.
Opposite: "lightweight". Usage: now borders on technical especially in the compound "heavyweight process".
(1994-12-22)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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