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heavy hitter
noun- a person with a deserved reputation for violence US, 1970
A baseball metaphor. - But his uncle was a made-guy, a lieutenant with the Mulberry Street crew–a heavy hitter[.] — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, pp. 21–22, 1975
- His guy walks and the other two heavy hitters have to convey their sympathies to their clients. — George V. Higgins, The Judgment of Deke Hunter, p. 240, 1976
- Because we start out, all we see are heavy hitters, all your suspects. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 252, 1985
- a prominent and important person US, 1976
- And I also got to fraternize with and observe some of the real heavy hitters of political journalism. — Maria Shriver, Ten Things I Wish I’d Known, p. 5, 2000
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