heavy hitter

The travel gear industry lost a heavy hitter yesterday, as Eagle Creek announced that it will shut down operations by the end of this year.

The story of a man and his relationship with an octopus in the cold, cold water off Cape Town’s peninsula triumphed over a number of heavy hitters.

Underground heavy hitters such as the Jesus Lizard, Samiam and Jawbreaker never replicated Nirvana’s success.

We’ve interviewed some heavy hitters, including notables like Mark Cuban, Kirsten Green and Roelof Botha during our first two seasons.

This at a time when we’re dealing with two major health things, health disparities and inequities — both heavy hitters.

The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.

“There is a heavy security presence but nothing has changed,” agrees Father Javier.

The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.

“JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.

Up till then I was just a dog-assed heavy, one of the posse.

The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.

Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.

Hunter-Weston despite his heavy losses will be advancing to-morrow which should divert pressure from you.

Heavy firing continued all that afternoon, inflicting great loss on the rebels, whilst the Spaniards lost one soldier.

The keen resentment had faded from his face, but an immense reproach was there—a heavy, helpless, appealing reproach.