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Definition of Heavy hitter
1. Noun. An influential person who works hard to promote the causes they are interested in.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heavy Hitter
Literary usage of Heavy hitter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most by Henry Downes Miles (1906)
"Jones was known to be a very heavy hitter with his right, as was proved by the
severe punishment he dealt out to Tom Paddock in both their mills. ..."
2. The United Service (1885)
"The next winter Reid, of the first class, a heavy hitter, had two or three hard
tussles; but was whipped by a light weight in the hardest-fought battle of ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"But he is formidable in his frolic—though rather too showy, yet a clean, straight,
and even heavy hitter ; and most of his antagonists, though heavier men ..."
4. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Thomas Inman, John Newton (1884)
"I must notice, too, that on other coins a hammer and pincers, or tongs, appear,
as if the idea was to show that a maker, fabricator, or heavy hitter was ..."
5. A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success, and by Stephan Paternot, Andrew Essex (2001)
"We got rid of senior management and brought in a heavy hitter from Eddie Bauer.
The impact was felt immediately and sales really picked up, but it was too ..."
6. Principles of Business by Charles William Gerstenberg (1922)
"Most men will appreciate this argument if they will recall how the fielders "lay
out" when a heavy hitter steps to the plate as batter, ..."
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