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Definition of whopper in English: whoppernoun ˈwɒpəˈ(h)wɑpər informal 1A thing that is extremely or unusually large. 〈正式〉庞然大物；特大物 the novel is a 1,079 page whopper 该小说是部巨著，有1，079页。 Example sentencesExamples - He is sent with a companion, his best friend and the publications photographer, to bring back a whopper of a story.
- The biggest pike caught during the winter leagues was a whopper of twenty-five pounds, caught on a deadbait on March 2.
- Mr. Greenspan's whopper must be followed by a whopper of a slump.
- The two-disc set is a whopper.
- It was too easy, even for Julia who, fearing she wouldn't get a bite, found herself ankle-deep in whoppers.
- Apparently believing this was a real whopper of an idea, he wrote 10 meandering sequences and strung them together into a film.
Synonyms monster, brute, beast, giant, colossus, mountain, behemoth, leviathan, mammoth, monstrosity informal jumbo - 1.1 A gross or blatant lie.
弥天大谎 Example sentencesExamples - A section of the website ironically labeled ‘Fact vs. Fiction’ contains this whopper.
- To put it another way, we may need to tell one another and ourselves major whoppers, and not just little white lies, to replenish our interest in life.
- Four years ago, I started the Lie Emporium, a website dedicated to lies, whoppers, porkies, politicians and just plain old cheap gags.
- Research revealed that untruths range from little white lies to huge whoppers aimed purely at personal gain.
- However, the oversized softie has a weakness for sob stories and the lumber lout feeds him a whopper.
- Indeed, some of them were whoppers like claiming areas had been clear-felled when they hadn't and putting misleading captions on photographs.
- As both posts and the ‘mainstream media’ story are full of whoppers (and I don't mean they went to Burger King…) I just had to toss in my two cents.
- Even Teb will stop arguing with me long enough to admit that I can tell a whopper to beat all whoppers.
- Historians disagree whether Washington told whoppers or whether he just spread propaganda among British spies and soldiers to help win the American Revolution.
- And his lies, even his biggest whoppers, seem most sincerely to be believed by him - I have no doubt that he thinks he served in the National Guard, for example.
Synonyms lie, untruth, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, invention, piece of fiction, fiction, falsification, falsity, fairy story/tale, cock and bull story, barefaced lie (little) white lie, half-truth, exaggeration, prevarication, departure from the truth yarn, story, red herring, rumour, fable, myth, flight of fancy, figment of the imagination pretence, pretext, sham, ruse, wile, trickery, stratagem informal tall story, tall tale British rhyming slang pork pie, porky, porky pie humorous terminological inexactitude
Rhymesbopper, copper, cropper, Dopper, dropper, hopper, improper, Joppa, poppa, popper, proper, shopper, stopper, swapper, topper Definition of whopper in US English: whoppernounˈ(h)wäpərˈ(h)wɑpər informal 1A thing that is extremely or unusually large. 〈正式〉庞然大物；特大物 the novel is a 1,079 page whopper 该小说是部巨著，有1，079页。 Example sentencesExamples - Apparently believing this was a real whopper of an idea, he wrote 10 meandering sequences and strung them together into a film.
- He is sent with a companion, his best friend and the publications photographer, to bring back a whopper of a story.
- The biggest pike caught during the winter leagues was a whopper of twenty-five pounds, caught on a deadbait on March 2.
- It was too easy, even for Julia who, fearing she wouldn't get a bite, found herself ankle-deep in whoppers.
- The two-disc set is a whopper.
- Mr. Greenspan's whopper must be followed by a whopper of a slump.
Synonyms monster, brute, beast, giant, colossus, mountain, behemoth, leviathan, mammoth, monstrosity - 1.1 A gross or blatant lie.
弥天大谎 Example sentencesExamples - A section of the website ironically labeled ‘Fact vs. Fiction’ contains this whopper.
- Indeed, some of them were whoppers like claiming areas had been clear-felled when they hadn't and putting misleading captions on photographs.
- However, the oversized softie has a weakness for sob stories and the lumber lout feeds him a whopper.
- Four years ago, I started the Lie Emporium, a website dedicated to lies, whoppers, porkies, politicians and just plain old cheap gags.
- And his lies, even his biggest whoppers, seem most sincerely to be believed by him - I have no doubt that he thinks he served in the National Guard, for example.
- As both posts and the ‘mainstream media’ story are full of whoppers (and I don't mean they went to Burger King…) I just had to toss in my two cents.
- To put it another way, we may need to tell one another and ourselves major whoppers, and not just little white lies, to replenish our interest in life.
- Historians disagree whether Washington told whoppers or whether he just spread propaganda among British spies and soldiers to help win the American Revolution.
- Research revealed that untruths range from little white lies to huge whoppers aimed purely at personal gain.
- Even Teb will stop arguing with me long enough to admit that I can tell a whopper to beat all whoppers.
Synonyms lie, untruth, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, made-up story, trumped-up story, fake news, invention, piece of fiction, fiction, falsification, falsity, fairy story, fairy tale, cock and bull story, barefaced lie
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