heavyweight n.
1. an important person with power and influence.
 | Summer-Savory xviii 146: He is a heavy-weight wherever he is [DA]. | |
| Century Mag. (N.Y.) 2764/3: Heavy-weight [...] A person of weight or importance; one of much influence [DA]. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 146: The music started; so did the dancing [...] Birdie, excited, caught up her skirts and joined the heavyweights. | |
| ‘This King Business’ Story Omnibus (1966) 121: Mentally he wasn’t a heavyweight. His revolution was crude stuff. | |
| Hell’s Angels (1967) 43: A bad hack job that wouldn’t have raised a ripple had it appeared in most American newspapers ... but the Times is a heavyweight. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | You Flash Bastard 245: Sneed didn’t say anything. He wasn’t about to be drawn into an argument between two heavyweights, especially not when one was his current boss. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines xxi: They self-educated [...] Ain’t no organization, but they heavyweights. | |
| Street Talk 2 171: When he tells the employees to do something, they listen. He’s a real heavyweight. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Chopper 4 151: I’m one crook who has shaken hands with more heavyweights in all walks of life than most uppity NSW lawyers will get to meet in a lifetime. |
2. (US Und.) a violent criminal.
| Vocab. Criminal Sl. 43: heavyweight [...] A desperate thief; a person capable of delivering a dangerous attack in the event of personal encounter; a yegg; a burglar. | |
| Rap Sheet 166: With all them heavyweights of the old days thinning out, Johnny Chase was getting moved up on the firing line by the feds. |
3. (US) a fat person, esp. a fat woman.
| ‘Razorback Sl.’ in AS L 1/2 61: heavyweight n Overweight person, especially a female. |
4. (US gay) the possessor of a larger-than-average penis.
| Queens’ Vernacular. |
5. (US campus) a heavy drinker.
| Campus Sl. Apr. 3: heavyweight – person who can drink a lot. |