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Whopper   Listen
noun
Whopper  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, whops.
2.
Something very large, especially a big lie. Same as Whapper, but the more common spelling.





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"Whopper" Quotes from Famous Books



... you didn't kill him, sir, or he wouldn't have got over the side like that. It was best half on him. My: what a whopper!" ...
— Fire Island - Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track • G. Manville Fenn
... cried Lew. "Isn't he a whopper? Look at the spread of his wings. And see how he soars, without ever moving a muscle. I wonder ...
— The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol - The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol • Lewis E. Theiss
... persisted, "that whopper of Maui roping the sun like a wild steer, and that other whopper of heaving up the sky from ...
— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London
... spread his little knees to form a place for the big book. "I am glad I wasn't a girl," he said, in pursuance of his train of thought. "Golly, what a whopper butterfly!" ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... But the one with the trap is a whopper. He'll go over four hundred. See the tracks? Looks like somebody'd ...
— The Young Forester • Zane Grey
... the family she would sometimes innocently introduce them into her addresses, invariably bringing down the house thereby. At one meeting, after telling a most remarkable story, she remarked, "You may think this is a whopper, ...
— Notable Women Of Modern China • Margaret E. Burton
... whisper, said to me. "Now don't be in a hurry, young stupid; kneel down. He is not to be disturbed at his dinner, mind. You keep behind me, and look along my back; I never clapped eyes on such a whopper." ...
— Crocker's Hole - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore • R. D. Blackmore


Words linked to "Whopper" :   lie, walloper, thing, whacker


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