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词汇 whopper
释义 whopper
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈwɒp.ər/ us /ˈwɑː.pɚ/
humorousinformal
something that is surprising because it is so much bigger than the usual size: 庞然大物;超大的东西
My nose is pretty big, but my Dad's got a whopper.我的鼻子已经很大了,而我爸爸的鼻子更大。
humorous
a big lie: 弥天大谎
Amanda's told some whoppers in her time.阿曼达曾撒过一些大慌。
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whopper | American Dictionary


whopper
noun[ C ]
 infmlus/ˈhwɑp·ər, ˈwɑp-/
something that is much bigger than the usual size:
Your monthly payment is a whopper.
A whopper is also a big lie:
Fishermen are supposed to tell the biggest whoppers.

whopping


adjectiveus/ˈhwɑp·ɪŋ, ˈwɑp-/
infml
The mayor was elected by a whopping majority.

Examples of whopper


whopper
Perhaps they are telling me whoppers in my home country!
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
If we are concerned about that, ought we not to be more concerned about the "whoppers" which will be coming on to our oceans at a later date?
From the
Hansard archive

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His fantastic accounts are in fact, outright lies, or whoppers.
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Prior to that the rules governing combination of before/after methods and so-called whoppers methods (around) was fixed, and the compiler just generated the code for that.
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After five years of huge tax increases, we get the whopper tax increase.
From the
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I can only presume that it is based on the notion that if one tells a big enough whopper, and tells it often enough, no one will notice it.
From the
Hansard archive

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Well, that is a whopper.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Not an easy task, as each family whopper is more despicable than the last.
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The upshot is a whopper of an ending that is as silly as it is satisfying.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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