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Meanings of whopper in English

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garrofa

A gross untruth; a blatant lie.

        garrofa

        Something especially big or impressive of its kind.

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              Examples for "walloper"
              Examples for "walloper"
              1
              He's a godly walloper, and he tears into Satan bare-handed every Sunday.
              Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
              2
              The sneaking dock-walloper, I'll take the starch out of him when we land!
              Parrot & Co.
              3
              Every clodhopper an' cow-walloper these days is an able seaman.
              The Mutiny of the Elsinore
              4
              A beach-comber, a dock-walloper, if there ever was one.
              Parrot & Co.
              5
              Bunter himself could not be expected to remember every casual dock walloper he might have had to do with.
              Tales Of Hearsay
              Usage of whopper in English
              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
              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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