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WHOPPING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does whopping mean?
• WHOPPING (adjective)
The adjective WHOPPING has 1 sense:
1. (used informally) very large
Familiarity information: WHOPPING used as an adjective is very rare.
• WHOPPING (adverb)
The adverb WHOPPING has 1 sense:
1. extremely
Familiarity information: WHOPPING used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used informally) very large
Synonyms:
banging; humongous; thumping; walloping; whopping
Context example:
a thumping loss
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely
Context example:
they all were whopping drunk
Context examples
His answer was not cheering to my spirits, for it consisted of two dismal words, “With whopping.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In the sleep-deprived mouse brains, the astrocytes were found to be active across 8.4 percent of the synapses, and in the chronically sleep-deprived mice, a whopping 13.5 percent of their synapses showed astrocyte activity.
(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It was assembled from 82 snapshots representing a whopping 16.2 hours of Spitzer observing time.
(The 'Serpent' star-forming cloud hatches new stars, NASA)
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