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whop·per

(wŏp′ər, hwŏp′-)

n. Slang

1. Something exceptionally big or remarkable.

2. A gross untruth.

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whopper

(ˈwɒpə)

1. anything uncommonly large of its kind

2. a big lie

[C18: from whop]

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whop•per

(ˈʰwɒp ər, ˈwɒp-)

n. Informal.

1. something uncommonly large of its kind.

2. a big lie.

[1775–85]

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Noun	1.	whopper - a gross untruth; a blatant lie walloper lie, prevarication - a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
	2.	whopper - something especially big or impressive of its kind whacker 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 He's always telling whoppers about his sex life.

2. giant, monster, jumbo (informal), mammoth, colossus, leviathan, crackerjack (informal) As comets go, it is a whopper.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

whopper

noun

1. Slang. One that is extraordinarily large and powerful:

behemoth, giant, Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, titan.

2. Slang. An untrue declaration:

canard, cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, inveracity, lie, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth.

Informal: fish story, tall tale.

Translations

Trumm

cosa enorme enorme

whopper

[ˈwɒpəʳ] N

1. (= big thing) → monstruo m
that fish is a whopper → ese pez es enorme
what a whopper! → ¡qué enorme!

2. (= lie) → bola f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

whopper

[ˈ^hwɒpə^r] n

(= lie) → bobard m

(= large thing) → monstre m
a whopper of a ... → un vache de ... , un(e) ... maous(se)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

whopper

n (inf) (= sth big) → Brocken m (inf), → Apparat m (inf); (= lie) → faustdicke Lüge

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

whopper

[ˈwɒpəʳ] n (fam) (large thing) → cosa enorme; (lie) → balla

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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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.

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"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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KFC Begins Testing Beyond Meat Vegan Fried Chicken

Louis, Missouri area, the burger giant has launched the meat-free Impossible Whopper across the whole of the US.

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For a limited time, when you go within 600 feet of a McDonald's restaurant you can order a flame-grilled Whopper sandwich for only 1c on the newly revamped BK App.

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MICHAEL GOVE has insisted that the UK will be an "independent coastal state" after Brexit amid claims the Leave campaign had landed a "whopper" by telling fishing communities they would be taking back control.