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heavy breather

noun

  1. a person who breathes stertorously or with difficulty
  2. an anonymous telephone caller who imitates such sounds, as being suggestive of sexual excitement
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Years ago in the early 1990s, Willy T. Ribbs, the first Black man to compete in the Indianapolis 500, sought a deep-pocketed partner, a heavy breather, as he calls them, to help catapult him into the victory lane.

Temperature moderated, my attention then wandered to the sounds of a heavy breather two rows in front of me, and later to the squeaks emanating from the heating pipes.

He's a heavy breather, he snuffles like a piglet and he's an incorrigible face-licker.

“Is he the best that’s left? I’m sorry, but I’m not putting my future in the hands of this heavy breather.”

The prospect of a reunion gives the novel its zing; it’s hard to shed a tear for Charles, “a heavy breather, a snorer, a guffawer,” as well as a defiantly lazy father and an unfaithful jerk.

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