heavyweight
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iˌweɪt adjective
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, especially a professional boxer weighing more than 175 pounds (79.4 kg).
4.
of or pertaining to the weight class or division of such boxers: a heavyweight bout.
5.
(of a riding horse, especially a hunter) able to carry up to 205 pounds (93 kg).
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.
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heavyweight (ˈhɛvɪˌweɪt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that is heavier than average |
| 2. | a. a professional boxer weighing more than 175 pounds (79 kg) |
| b. an amateur boxer weighing more than 81 kg (179 pounds) | |
| c. (as modifier): the world heavyweight championship | |
| 3. | a wrestler in a similar weight category (usually over 214 pounds (97 kg)) |
| 4. | informal an important or highly influential person |
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heavyweight definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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heavyweight definition
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)
Example sentences
We will demonstrate a simple, middleweight and heavyweight use case for doing the laundry.
Cheese also has some heavyweight historical proponents.
Newton was not the only intellectual heavyweight from his era trying to make gold.
It is, rather, that he is replacing one heavyweight at employment with another.
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