Crossword clues for whopper
whopper
- Ludicrous falsehood
- However, Walker is someone who can see into your mind (7-6)
- A gross untruth
- Something especially big or impressive of its kind
- P. Drake's portrayer in a big lie
- Women's jumper is unusually large one
- Say Saddam has chemical and biological weapons in 1910
- Humongous untruth
- Blatant lie
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1767, "uncommonly large thing," originally and especially an audacious lie, formed as if from whop (v.) "to beat, overcome." Whopping "large, big, impressive" is attested by 1620s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 something remarkably large 2 an outrageous lie
WordNet
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. The burger is one of the best known products in the fast food industry; it is so well known that Burger King bills itself as the Home of the Whopper in its advertising and signage. Additionally, the company uses the name in its high-end concept, the BK Whopper Bar. Due to its place in the marketplace, the Whopper has prompted Burger King's competitors, mainly McDonald's and Wendy's, to try to develop similar products designed to compete with it.
The company markets several variants of the burger as well as other variants that are specifically tailored to meet local taste preferences or customs of the various regions and countries in which it does business. To promote continuing interest in the product, Burger King occasionally releases limited-time variants on the Whopper. As the signature product of the company, it is often at the center of advertising promotions, product tie-ins, and even corporate practical jokes and hoaxes. Some of the early twenty-first century advertising programs, particularly in Europe, have drawn criticism for cultural insensitivity or misogyny. Additionally, as the signature product in the company's portfolio, Burger King has registered many global trademarks to protect its investment in the product.
Whopper or Whoppers may refer to:
- slang for a lie
- Whopper, hamburger sold by Burger King
- Whoppers, small, spherical confectionery sold by Hershey
- "Whopper", nickname of Gordon Lane (1921-1973), Australian rules footballer
- "Whopper", nickname of Mike Lenarduzzi (born 1972), Canadian retired ice hockey goaltender
- "The Whopper", nickname of Billy Paultz (born 1948), American retired ABA and NBA basketball player
- Wendy Whoppers (born 1970), big-bust feature dancer and pornographic actress
- "The Whopper", an episode of the television series Lassie
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.