Definitions
something especially big or impressive of its kind
Word origin
From whop + -er.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins; but this here town is five times as big.”
“There's a storm blowing up, Sylvester—a 'whopper', speaking in the vernacular of the peasantry.”
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