Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something exceptionally big or remarkable.
- noun A gross untruth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who whops.
- noun Anything uncommonly large: applied particularly to a monstrous lie.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, whops.
- noun something very large, especially a big lie. Same as
Whapper , but the more common spelling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun something
remarkably large - noun an
outrageous lie
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something especially big or impressive of its kind
- noun a gross untruth; a blatant lie
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But the rather liberal "Washington Post," this week defended me, and found that Senator Obama had issued what it calls a whopper when referring to me in his third attack on me on the issue of illegal immigration.
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But the rather liberal "Washington Post," this week defended me, and found that Senator Obama had issued what it calls a whopper when referring to me in his third attack on me on the issue of illegal immigration.
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As the young woman rattled on she grew more and more glib; she was what they call whopper-jawed, and spoke a language almost purely consonantal, cutting and clipping her words with a rapid play of her whopper-jaw till there was nothing but the bare bones left of them.
The Minister's Charge William Dean Howells 1878
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The real whopper is when McCain calls for easing "regulatory, accounting and tax impediments to raising capital."
McCain flounders, reads teleprompter on big economic speech 2008
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The real whopper is when McCain calls for easing "regulatory, accounting and tax impediments to raising capital."
McCain flounders, reads teleprompter on big economic speech 2008
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Behavior that was memorialized by Somerby in this quote: CARLSON: I actually happen to know people who need government and so they would care more about the programs, and less about the things we kind of make fun of … But as sport, and as our enterprise, Gore coming up with another whopper is greatly entertaining to us.
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And, the big whopper is that the new provisions are RETROACTIVE to the DATE OF ENACTMENT of FISA, which is 1978, or well before Bush assumed office.
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- Tom DeLayThe one truth about that whopper is that it won't be his last.
January 2006 2006
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The best chance at a true whopper is to slowly still-hunt up the stream, stopping and glassing large pools and small open areas among the lush old-growth forest.
Dream Hunts 2003
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The whopper is the House Republican plan to adopt a budget balancing amendment to the Constitution.
Jeff Madrick: The 10 Worst Economic Ideas of 2011 Jeff Madrick 2011
madmouth commented on the word whopper
an uncouth way to say falsehood
May 29, 2009
reesetee commented on the word whopper
Also, a tasty chocolate and malted milk treat.
June 3, 2009