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whopper
noun- something that is extremely and unusually large UK, 1785 The best known Whopper in the US is a hamburger sandwich introduced by the original Burger King restaurant in Miami in 1957.
- [S]he explained she was a lab technician on twentyfourhour call and scooted back to the ladiesroom to phone her escort service and say she couldn’t book any tricks that night; she’d just started and it was a whopper. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 5, 1990
- She had another long phone conversation with Wally; the next phone bill should be quite a whopper. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 109, 1993
- — Rita Cirtesi, Pink Slip, 1999
- I needed those kinds of gifts like I needed the kind of whopper crotch infection I got after wearing those polyester birthday briefs[.] — Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, p. 1, 1999
- a big lie US
- She probably also knew that the claim of fluency in Frenchy on your resume was something of a whopper, and that you are too proud to admit it now. — Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, p. 20, 1984
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