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Meanings of whopper in English

Catalan
garrofa

A gross untruth; a blatant lie.

garrofa

Something especially big or impressive of its kind.

Usage of whopper in English
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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
6
It's sure going to bring on a whopper before a great while.
The Saddle Boys of the Rockies; Or, Lost on Thunder Mountain
7
Is that true about the grasshopper, Bishop, or is it a whopper?
The Militants / Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fig...
8
Apartment Living: There are ways to avoid a whopper of a service charge.
The Irish Times
9
Last week I expertly executed the plan on a whopper on my chin.
News.com.au
10
If they keep up this pace, album number four will be a whopper.
The Irish Times
11
It's an exercise in understatement and is the definition of whopper.
The Irish Times
12
Dialysis always leaves me weak, but this one was a whopper.
Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
13
I'd never have told such a whopper but I'm so nervous and shy.
The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
14
We have saved all our wheat crop, and it's a whopper.
The Prairie Wife
15
All fingers and toes accounted for, whoa, and a whopper of a willy!
Chosen: a novel
16
Close up yer own whopper jawed mouth, ef ye want anything shet up!
Alice of Old Vincennes
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