(hitters)
1.
In sports, you can use hitter to say how good someone is at hitting the ball.
The Georgian, aged 19, is not one of the game's big hitters.
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2.
If you refer to someone such as a politician or a businessman as a heavy hitter or a big hitter, you mean that they are powerful and influential.
...friendships with heavy hitters like European industrialist Carlo De Benedetti.
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