Definition

1. Noun:
   • A remarkably large or impressive thing of its kind: Refers to something that is unusually big, substantial, or notable in size or scale.
   • A gross untruth; a blatant lie: Refers to a statement that is obviously and outrageously false.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Large Thing):

  • That fish you caught is a real whopper! (It is an exceptionally large fish.)
  • The company reported a whopper of a profit this quarter. (It reported an impressively large profit.)

• Noun (Blatant Lie):

  • He told me a whopper about meeting the president. (He told me an outrageous lie.)
  • That story about the alien abduction is a complete whopper. (That story is a gross falsehood.)

Advanced Usage

• "to be a whopper": to be an extreme example of something, either in size or falsehood.
  • The mistake in the report wasn't just small; it was a whopper. (It was a huge, glaring mistake.)
• Often used informally to add emphasis regarding size or the audacity of a lie.

Variants and Related Words

• Whopping (adjective): Extremely large.
  • They won by a whopping majority. (They won by an overwhelmingly large majority.)

Synonyms

• For a large thing: monster, giant, jumbo, colossus.
• For a lie: falsehood, fib, tall tale, fabrication, prevarication.

Idioms and Phrases

• "That's a whopper!": An exclamation used to comment on something being extremely large or an obvious lie.
  • Look at the size of that burger! That's a whopper!
  • You expect me to believe you were abducted by pirates? That's a whopper!

Noun

1. something especially big or impressive of its kind
2. a gross untruth; a blatant lie