Definition of "world-beater" []

• One that is markedly superior to all others, as in the ability to succeed. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Besides, merging two South Korean brokers is hardly likely to create a world-beater."
• "At least before the recent earthquake disruption, the country was a world-beater when it came to electricity supply."
• "Second, I got hardly any chance to shoot it on paper, but I think it may be a world-beater and Savage is sending it to me so I can wring it out."