Whopper

//ˈwɒp.ə(ɹ)// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something remarkably large. informal

    "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. Well, you see, he weighed twenty-six pound."

  2. 2
    something especially big or impressive of its kind wordnet
  3. 3
    An outrageous or blatant lie. informal

    "When he got done telling it there was one of them uncomfortable silences that comes, you know, when a person has been telling a whopper and you feel sorry for him and wish you could think of some way to change the subject and let him down easy, […]"

  4. 4
    a gross untruth; a blatant lie wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
bouncerliealternative factbiggunbiggunbullshit

Example

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"I've heard him exaggerate before, but that story is a whopper even for him."

Etymology

From whop + -er.

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