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Meanings of whacker in English

Something especially big or impressive of its kind.

Synonyms
Examples for "whopper"
Examples for "whopper"
1
But the Acadian National Memory Bank's got a whopper of a vault.
Bones to Ashes
2
If you ever catch me telling a whopper again you can .
Anne of Avonlea
3
Mainly about how it makes complete sense Pete is packing a whopper.
News.com.au
4
If you tell a lie, he seems to believe, tell a whopper.
The Irish Times
5
It's awkward for such a whopper to be buried without a speech.
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
Usage of whacker in English
1
Attempts to rein in the fee-charging are like a weed-whacker unto kudzu.
Wired
2
Finally, I got out the weed whacker, my least favorite yard tool.
Dead ever after
3
Our cook has been an ox-driver, or "bull-whacker," on the plains, in
Canyons of the Colorado
4
He got salivated as a mule whacker on a spree.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
5
A weed whacker grumbles from the Donovans' backyard, snapping us out of the staring contest.
The First Lie
6
In the distance, a weed whacker growled to life.
Never Have I Ever
7
Something you could lay low with a weed-whacker wasn't quite the unstoppable monster she was expecting.
Fiendish deeds
8
I know nearly every bull-whacker that freights out of Benton, and they're a pretty white bunch.
Raw Gold: A Novel
9
You think he could be hiding in a shed along with the lawn mower and weed whacker?
Seven up
10
Next to a weed whacker was a pile of dog bones, matted fur still stuck to them.
Brains: a zombie memoir
11
The eyes of "Poker" Whaley could throw fear into the most reckless bull-whacker on the border.
Man-Size
12
Like somebody was trying to start a lawnmower, or a weed whacker, or...
Monster Hunter Vendetta
13
You seriously didn't see which way she went? She had to yell over the sound of someone's weed whacker.
Heartless
14
Probably a weenie whacker himself.
Grave Secrets
15
Dad's lawn mower shared space with a roto-tiller, a weed-whacker, and some garden tools inside the dark, cramped space.
You can't stop me
16
I suppose it was in the late blow, which was a whacker, and did lots of mischief along the coast.
Miles Wallingford / Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
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