heavy hitter

1. 1.

   an influential person who works hard to promote the causes they are interested in

   Broaderimportant person

Questions about heavy hitter

What does heavy hitter mean?

heavy hitter means "an influential person who works hard to promote the causes they are interested in".

Is heavy hitter a common word?

heavy hitter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.