What is "whopping"

Usage examples of "whopping".

Besides salary and per diem, each Secret Service employee received a whopping twenty-five dollars for each boodler he captured.

In April 1921 the Allies had presented Germany the bill for reparations, a whopping 132 billion gold marks - 33 billion dollars - which the Germans howled they could not possibly pay.

Few of us have ever met an angel, and probably would not recognize it if we saw one, and our images of an impersonal or suprapersonal God are hopelessly subhuman--jello, featureless light, homogenized space, or a whopping jolt of electricity.

Under fire from angry constituents, legislators are fumbling around with a sham responsea whopping three-day waiting period.

And, most significantly, the number of Americans who voted for Nader in 2000 increased by a whopping 500 percent over those who voted for him in 1996.

All this, you must realize, was in the good old days when the sight of a motor-car on the street was an event, and it was quite safe for tiny children to go tricycling and whopping their way to school in the centre of the highway.

That was a whopping mean-looking snake that went across the path there, and I ain't going another step nearer the icehouse!

First of all, here's what we know: Basco, thirty years ago, dumped some whopping transformers on the north side of Spectacle Island.

It would include a talent show, dancing, and ethnic foods, all for a whopping one-hundred-dollar admission fee.

The batter's name appeared on the Scoreboard as Babe Fujiwara and his batting average stood at a whopping .

She'd told him a whopping big lie as soon a she'd entered the box.

Pereira computed that these last two budget items would save the county a whopping $303,000 next year.

She took after him with a dishrag, whopping him with it as he stood open-mouthed in the kitchen entryway, his wicker creel with the rainbow trout in it at his feet.

The Indian failure rate was a whopping forty per cent, and the toll in lost lives, on those crowded space trucks, was immense.

Financial figures get fuzzy when they get big, but the global gross national product, if that term makes any sense, is around fifty trillion dollars a year and the amortization-adjusted purchase price for the whole damn globe entire is a whopping two and a half quadrillion dollars.