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Definition of Heavyweights
1. heavyweight [n] - See also: heavyweight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heavyweights
Literary usage of Heavyweights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abstract of Minutes, Compiled by the Secretary of the Association, 1889-1895 (1919)
"Among the lightweights this excess is due in the main to tuberculosis, but among
the heavyweights the acute infectious diseases are quite important in ..."
2. The Bookman (1903)
"The writer wished the literary heavyweights of THE BOOKMAN to give an authoritative
exposition of the use of the verbs in a sentence THE BOOKMAN had used in ..."
3. Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing As a Process by Carol B. Olson (1996)
""We have three different weight categories: the lightweights, the middleweights,
and the heavyweights. The lightweights we call the Cream-puff Cuties, ..."
4. Kings of the Queensberry Realm by W. W. Naughton (1902)
"... that September night ten years ago signaled the dawn of the new era so far as
the settlement of world's championships among heavyweights is concerned. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"It is usually applied to the kind of groan to which people give utterance in
lifting heavyweights. ..."
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