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whopper

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whop·per  (hwpr, wp-)
n. Slang
1. Something exceptionally big or remarkable.
2. A gross untruth.

[From whopping.]

whopper
Noun
Informal
1. an unusually large or impressive example of something: Deauville's beach is a whopper
2. a big lie
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.whopperwhopper - a gross untruth; a blatant lie
lie, prevarication - a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
2.whopper - something especially big or impressive of its kind
thing - an entity that is not named specifically; "I couldn't tell what the thing was"

whopper
noun 1. big lie, fabrication, falsehood, untruth, tall story (informal) fable
noun 2. giant, monster, jumbo (informal) mammoth, colossus, leviathan, crackerjack (informal)
Translations
Spanish whopper [ˈwɔpəʳ] n (col) (= lie); embuste m: (= large thing): a whopper → uno/a enorme
French whopper [ˈwɔpəʳ] n (inf) (= lie); gros bobard: (= large thing); monstre m, phénomène m
German whopper [ˈwɔpəʳ] (inf) n (lie) → faustdicke Lüge f;
(large thing) → Mordsding nt

Italian whopper [ˈwɔpəʳ] n (col) (= lie); balla: (= large thing); cosa enorme

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I'd gone out pike fishing, bless you, never thinking of a trout, and when I saw that whopper on the end of my line, blest if it didn't quite take me aback.
I run away from Sunday School -- and went fishing with the Cottons -- and I told ever so many whoppers to Mrs.
 
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