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whopping

[hwop-ing, wop-]

adjective

Informal.
  1. very large of its kind; thumping.

    We caught four whopping trout.



adverb

  1. extremely; exceedingly.

    a whopping big lie.

whopping

/ ˈɒɪŋ /

adjective

  1. informaluncommonly large

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of whopping1

First recorded in 1615–25; whop + -ing 2
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Yes a whopping majority, but just 34% of the vote last summer, and they have gone a long way backwards since.

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Another one-club man Goode, 37, recently played his 400th game for Saracens, for whom he has won a whopping six Premiership titles and played in nine finals.

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At Harvard, for example, international students make up a whopping 27% of total enrollment.

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Seventeen, which boast a whopping 13 members, have had a remarkable 12 months, including making history as the first K-pop act on Glastonbury's main stage last summer.

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Russia controls a whopping half of the Arctic shoreline - and it's been hoovering up Chinese investments.

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