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Is heavy a Scrabble word?

Yes, heavy is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 14 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of heavy?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (of a physical object) Having great weight.Examples: "Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy."; "Use the scales to measure how heavy it is."; "Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes."

2. (of a topic) Serious, somber.Examples: ""We're still in an existential-stakes war with the Pa'anuri, and possibly with our own destructive tendencies." ' "Sorry. That was pretty heavy for someone who just woke up." "Oh, I'm fine. Waking up alive has ALWAYS meant spending the day trying not to be dead.""

3. (British, slang, dated) Good.Examples: "This film is heavy."Britishdatedslang

4. (dated, late 1960s, 1970s, US) Profound.Examples: "The Moody Blues are, like, heavy."USdated

5. (of a rate of flow) High, great.Examples: "1998, Stanley George Clayton, ""Menstruation" in Encyclopedia Britannica The ovarian response to gonadotropic hormones may be erratic at first, so that irregular or heavy bleeding sometimes occurs"

6. (slang) Armed.Examples: "Come heavy, or not at all."slang

adv (English)

1. (colloquial, nonstandard) To a great degree; greatly.Examples: "Olive: What was it - booze? Barney: Yeh. Been hitting it pretty heavy."colloquialnonstandard

2. (India, colloquial) veryIndiacolloquial

noun (English)

1. (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.Examples: "With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films."slang

2. (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.Examples: "A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it."slang

3. (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.Examples: "The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1."; "Reviewers in the heavies aim to impress with the depth of their knowledge and appreciation."in-pluralslang

4. (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.Examples: "I read five heavies, maybe transports or tankers...could be bombers."; "A 76 Squadron pilot who later completed a second tour on Mosquitoes said that his colleagues on the light bombers “simply could never understand how awful being on heavies was.”"

5. (theater, archaic, slang) A serious theatrical role.Examples: "Payton boasted his range included "leading parts or genteel heavies, character old men, dialect parts, old women and, on occasion, soubrettes and leading ladies"; however, he was most at ease in light comedy roles."archaicslang

6. (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.Examples: "Cavalry […] is divided into mediums, heavies, and light cavalry. The mediums consist of 13 regiments; the heavies of 2 regiments; and the light of 13."historical

verb (English)

1. (often with "up") To make heavier.Examples: "They piled their goods on the donkey's back, heavying up an already backbreaking load."often

2. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.Examples: "The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses."; "[…]the Prime Minister sought to evade the simple fact that he heavied Mr Reid to get rid of Dr Armstrong."; "2001, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible, Spinifex Press, Australia, page 557, But he is on the wrong horse, heavying me. My phone′s tapped. Well, he won′t find anything."AustraliaNew-Zealandinformal

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "heavy"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "heavy"?

Scrabble
14 points
H4
E1
A1
V4
Y4
Words With Friends
13 points
H3
E1
A1
V4
Y4

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