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Whopping
Definitions
- 1 Exceptionally great or large. colloquial, not-comparable
"It weighed a whopping 700 pounds when it was full."
- 1 (used informally) very large wordnet
- 1 Exceedingly, extremely, very. colloquial, not-comparable
"Is she doing a tango? A buck and wing? A soulful modern ballet? No, Joan Crawford is having a whopping good time learning judo, the Japanese art of self-defense, for her new movie, The Caretakers. Joan plays a nurse who uses judo holds to subdue unruly patients in a mental hospital."
- 1 to an extreme degree wordnet
- 1 A beating.
"When I saw Dr. Vaughan, he was excessively kind, and told me that he was exceedingly sorry that I should have got into a mess with any of the monitors, and that, as far as he heard, I was to blame in what I had said, and so he should advise me to take the whopping, as there was no cowardice in taking anything from a legal power."
- 1 present participle and gerund of whop. form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
whop (verb) + -ing.
whop (verb) + -ing.
whop (verb) + -ing.
whop (verb) + -ing.
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