whopper

whop·per

 (wŏp′ər, hwŏp′-)

n. Slang

1. Something exceptionally big or remarkable.

2. A gross untruth.

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[From whopping.]

whopper

(ˈwɒpə)

n

1. anything uncommonly large of its kind

2. a big lie

[C18: from whop]

whop•per

(ˈʰwɒp ər, ˈwɒp-)

n. Informal.

1. something uncommonly large of its kind.

2. a big lie.

[1775–85]

Thesaurus

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.

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 enormeenorme

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

whopper

[ˈ^hwɒpə^r] n

(= lie) → bobard m

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

whopper

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

whopper

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