heavy hitters
The big guns
Heavy hitters are people or organizations with significant power, influence, or resources in a particular field.
The term comes from baseball, where a heavy hitter drives the ball with force.
In business or politics, heavy hitters are the major players who shape outcomes: The company brought in some heavy hitters to negotiate the deal.
Wall Street's heavy hitters weighed in on the merger.
Those controlling political outcomes
- mogulsBumps or bigwigs
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
- magnatesWealthy, powerful industrialists
- bigwigsInfluential, powerful people
VIPs · heavyweights · kingpins · movers and shakers · titans · barons · influential figures · decision-makers
Entities of great strength
- juggernautsOverwhelming, unstoppable forces
- forcesCauses of motion
- dominatorsThose who rule completely
- titansDominant powerful figures
giants · contenders · frontrunners · champions · heavyweights · goliaths · behemoths · market leaders
Those holding official control
- mastersThose with dominion
- veteransFormer armed forces members
- gurusVenerated teachers or experts
- expertsHighly skilled practitioners
luminaries · leading lights · virtuosos · heavyweights · thought leaders · specialists · all-stars · A-listers
Powerful baseball hitters
- battersMixtures before baking
- all-starsSelected elite players
- MVPsBest players, abbreviated
- franchise playersAthletes organizations build around
superstars · legends · icons
Things transforming entire fields
- trailblazersThose who open territory
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
- innovatorsCreators of novel things
- disruptorsThose who destabilize systems
changemakers · visionaries · trendsetters · groundbreakers · catalysts · transformers · revolutionaries · pathfinders
powerbrokers
Those controlling political outcomes
bigwigs · VIPs · heavyweights · kingpins · movers and shakers · titans · barons · influential figures · decision-makers · dealmakers
powerhouses
Entities of great strength
- juggernautsOverwhelming, unstoppable forces
- forcesCauses of motion
- dominatorsThose who rule completely
titans · giants · contenders · frontrunners · champions · heavyweights · goliaths · behemoths · market leaders
authorities
Those holding official control
experts · luminaries · leading lights · virtuosos · heavyweights · thought leaders · specialists · all-stars · A-listers · standouts
sluggers
Powerful baseball hitters
game-changers
Things transforming entire fields
- trailblazersThose who open territory
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
- innovatorsCreators of novel things
disruptors · changemakers · visionaries · trendsetters · groundbreakers · catalysts · transformers · revolutionaries · pathfinders · pace-setters
- eliteelite, elites, aristocrats, nobility, best
- famous peoplecelebrity, star, stars, legend, icon
- sports starsall-stars, elite athletes, elite players, MVPs, superstars
- VIPscelebrities, superstars, head of state, stars, legend
- sketchingsketch, doodle, pencil, eraser, paper
heavy hitterssmall fry
Children or insignificant people
lightweights · bit players · nobodies · nonentities · small potatoes
heavy hittersunderperformers
Those achieving below potential
scrubs · washouts · flops · duds · mediocrities
heavy hitterssmall-timers
Insignificant operators or players
bottom-feeders · little guys · unknowns · second-raters · junior varsity
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