Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - whopper
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4.
(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. N-COUNT 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 ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
5.
~ n informal 1 something unusually big (The fish Mike caught was a real whopper!) 2 a lie ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1785, formed as if from whop (v.) "beat, overcome," first recorded 1575, of uncertain origin. Meaning "big lie" is recorded first in 1791. Whopping "large, big, impressive" is from 1706. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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