WHOPPER


Meaning of WHOPPER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ (h)wɒpə(r) ]

( whoppers)

1.

If you describe a lie as a whopper , you mean that it is very far from the truth. ( INFORMAL )

...the biggest whopper the president told.

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2.

If you refer to something as a whopper , you mean that it is an unusually large example of the thing mentioned. ( INFORMAL )

As comets go, it is a whopper.

N-COUNT

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