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heavy
1. noun, slang A villain in a work of fiction. I always get typecast as the heavy of the movie. The heavy in his novel is about as generic as you can get.
2. noun, slang A mobster, especially an enforcer. A couple of heavies showed up to force the business owner to pay his share of the mafia's protection racket.
3. noun, slang A very important or influential person. He's known as something of a heavy in the fashion industry. Our lobbyists have been pressuring some of the political heavies to alter the wording of the legislation.
4. adjective, slang Of very serious, intense, or profound significance. This book about World War II is real heavy, man—I don't think I can keep reading it.
5. interjection, dated slang Used to express the profound or intense seriousness of a situation. A: "If we don't fix this, you may never get back home!" B: "Whoa, Doc, this is heavy!" A: "Weight has nothing to do with it, Marty."
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heavy
1. n. a villain. (Especially in movies, etc.) He is well known for playing heavies in the movies.
2. mod. important; profound; serious. I have some heavy things to talk over with you, Sam.
3. mod. really fine. This is a real heavy thing you’re doing for me.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- a heavy hand
- a heavy purse makes a light heart
- a heavy silence/atmosphere
- a light purse makes a heavy heart
- be (a bit) on the heavy side
- be heavy going
- carrying a (heavy) load
- carrying a heavy load
- every horse thinks its own pack heaviest
- get heavy
- hang heavy
- hang/lie heavy
- have a (heavy) cross to bear
- have a heavy foot
- have a heavy heart
- heavy
- heavy artillery
- heavy atmosphere
- heavy bread
- heavy brigade
- heavy date
- heavy going
- heavy hand
- heavy hand, with a
- heavy hangs the head that wears a/the crown
- heavy hash
- heavy heart, a
- heavy heart, with a
- heavy hitter
- heavy into
- heavy into (someone or something)
- heavy into someone/something
- heavy joint
- heavy lies the crown
- heavy lifting
- heavy mob
- heavy money
- heavy on
- heavy petting
- heavy scene
- heavy silence
- heavy soul
- heavy weather
- heavy with child
- heavy-duty
- heavy-footed
- heavy-handed
- heavy-hearted
- heavyweight
- hot and heavy
- lay a (heavy) trip on (one)
- lay a heavy trip on someone
- lie heavy
- light purse makes a heavy heart
- make heavy going of (something)
- make heavy weather
- make heavy weather of
- make heavy weather of (something)
- make heavy weather of something
- make heavy weather of something/of doing something
- play the heavy
- play the heavy, to
- sit heavy on the stomach
- the heavy mob/brigade
- time hangs heavy
- time hangs heavy on (one's) hands
- Time hangs heavy on hands
- time hangs/lies heavy
- top heavy
- top-heavy
- walk heavy
- wing heavy
- with a heavy hand
- with a heavy heart
- with a heavy/sinking heart