whacker

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Thân thiện

The gardener uses a weed whacker to trim the long grass.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A person or thing that is notably large, heavy, or impressive of its kind: "Whacker" is an informal, often humorous term used to describe something or someone that is conspicuously big, substantial, or remarkable in size or scale.
   • A strange or remarkable thing: In some contexts, it can refer to something considered odd, outlandish, or extraordinary.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • That's a real whacker of a sandwich; I can't even fit it in my mouth! (That is an exceptionally large sandwich.)
  • He caught a whacker of a fish on his first cast. (He caught an impressively large fish.)
  • Did you hear about the hailstorm last night? The hailstones were absolute whackers! (The hailstones were remarkably large.)

Advanced Usage

• Used for emphasis: The word is often used with "of a" to add humorous or emphatic exaggeration about size.
  • That's a whacker of a problem you've got there. (That is a very significant or difficult problem.)
• Regional/Colloquial tone: Its use is predominantly informal, colloquial, and can be found in British, Australian, and New Zealand English.

Variants and Related Words

• Whopper (n): A very large specimen of something; a great lie. This is a very close synonym.
  • She told a whopper to get out of trouble.
• Thumper (n): Something that thumps or is notably large (similar informal usage).
  • That was a thumper of a bass drum.

Synonyms

• Whopper: An extremely large thing.
• Monster: Something unusually large.
• Jumbo: Very large.
• Colossus: A person or thing of enormous size.

Related Phrases

• A whacker of a [noun]: A common informal construction to describe an impressively large or extreme example of something.
  • We had a whacker of a thunderstorm last night.

Học thuật

Noun

1. something especially big or impressive of its kind

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