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Story that's not straight
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whopper
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Word definitions for whopper in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB tell ▪ And if our leaders were going to lie about their methods, they were almost by necessity going to tell a whopper . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ She tells one whopper after another. ▪ This storm's going to be a ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Whopper is the signature hamburger product sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King and its Australian franchise Hungry Jack's . Introduced in 1957, it has undergone several reformulations including resizing and bread changes. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 something remarkably large 2 an outrageous lie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whapper \Whap"per\, Whopper \Whop"per\, n. [See Whap .] Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie. Now (1998) usually spelled whopper . [Colloq.]
Usage examples of whopper.
Otherwise, they produce an essentially dull, uninspired piece of work that depends entirely on the whopper at the very end.
The raucous sounds of a country and western song assaulted her ears as he held the door open for her and she stepped into the smoky interior of Whoppers Bar and Grill.
This time, he acted like he was at the clambake and it was his turn to tell a joke and he had a whopper saved up.
Clipperton's eighteenth summer, of Subsidized Time, the adverted Year of the Whopper, when the U.
Apparently sustained by the fact that anyone at all has swallowed his recentest whopper, he sets about to hatch another, clucking tongue at the compass and bedazzlement of those fabrications.
You know, do the obvious stuff: quit desecrating the Arctic wilderness, pick up after ourselves, stop throwing Whopper remains out the car window.
WE BOUGHT DRIVE-THRU Whoppers and fries at a Burger King on Broadview, and it was dark out and very cool.
Because of his propensity for telling whoppers in even the most trying times, he was now like the little boy who cried wolf--Ake was resisting the truth because it was coming from him.
Now even the food in the orphanage cafeteria seemed like it had been manna from Heaven, and he would have walked to China if he knew he could get a Burger King Whopper there.
Hayes was one of several non-members who attended occasionally to listen to the after-dinner whopper, paying his own check, and, of course, being forbidden to participate.
All his influence rested on Teenie Whopper, who was busily misrepresenting herself as royalty and holding her position through making page boys into catamites.
He saw beer cans, soft drink cans, empty or near-empty potato chip and pork rind bags, boxes which had contained Big Macs and Whoppers.
He spent three hours wandering around the hotel and the surrounding resort area, some of it still showing signs of damage caused by a whopper of a hurricane called Gilbert years before.