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whop·ping

 (wŏp′ĭng, hwŏp′-) Slang
adj.
Exceptionally large: "yet another whopping pay raise" (Lee Atwater).
adv.
Used as an intensive: a whopping good joke.
[ Present participle of whop.]
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whopping

(ˈwɒpɪŋ)
adj
informal uncommonly large
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whop•ping

(ˈʰwɒp ɪŋ, ˈwɒp-)

adj. Informal.
1. very large of its kind; thumping: We caught four whopping trout.
adv.
2. extremely; exceedingly: a whopping big lie.
[1615–25]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.whopping - (used informally) very largewhopping - (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss"
banging, humongous, thumping, walloping
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"
Adv.1.whopping - extremely; "they all were whopping drunk"
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whopping

adjective gigantic, great, big, large, huge, giant, massive, enormous, extraordinary, tremendous, monstrous, whacking (informal), mammoth, prodigious, elephantine, humongous or humungous (U.S. slang) Planned spending amounts to a whopping $31.4 billion.
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whopping

adjective
Slang. Of extraordinary size and power:
behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast.
Informal: walloping.
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Translations
كَبير، هائِل
enorm
baromi nagyóriási
milzigs, neiedomajams
velikánsky

whopping

[ˈwɒpɪŋ] ADJ (also whopping great) → enorme, grandísimo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

whopping

[ˈhwɒpɪŋ] adj (= big) [fee] → exorbitant(e); [increase] → spectaculaire; [lie, mistake] → énorme
a whopping 85% of the vote → un pourcentage écrasant de 85% des suffrages
whopping great, whopping big → maous(se) , mahous(se)
a whopping great chocolate cake → un gâteau au chocolat maous
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

whopping

adj (inf) → Mords- (inf), → Riesen-; a whopping amount → ein Riesenbetrag m, → ein Mordsbetrag m (inf); a whopping big fish → ein mordsgroßer Fisch (inf), → ein Monstrum nt → von einem Fisch (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

whopping

[ˈwɒpɪŋ] adj (fam) (also whopping great) → enorme
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

whopping

(ˈwopiŋ) adjective
(informal) (also whopping great) huge; very large or big. a whopping lie; a whopping great deficit.
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