whoppers

noun

plural of whopper
1
as in lies
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive told a whopper to get out of jury duty

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2
as in whales
something that is unusually large and powerful a whopper of a fish that won first prize in the derby the season finale ended with a whopper of a cliffhanger

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Recent Examples of whoppers One of my favorite head coach whoppers. — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025 And then there were the epic flavor fails, including a couple of real whoppers. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025 From hyperloops to solar roofs to trillion-dollar savings from federal budget cuts by DOGE, Musk has developed a reputation for excessive boasts and telling outright whoppers. — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whoppers
  1. lies
  2. whales
  3. tales
  4. giants
  5. stories
  6. monsters
  7. dinosaurs
  8. mammoths
Noun
  • Closing that gap is where the real challenge—and opportunity—lies.
    — Anand Solanki, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Another way to hold accountable those spreading lies online is to sue them.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of lies
Noun
  • Even in the deep ocean, which is filled with alien-like creatures, the whales almost feel like a master alien.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The Marine Mammal Center cautions against getting too close to sea lions and whales, for everyone’s safety.
    — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of whales
Noun
  • The story gains a sense of momentum and inevitability as these disconnected tales suddenly become part of a continuous thread.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • And in 2017, historian Alberto (Carlos González) struggles to figure out how the two preceding tales intersect, stumped until an academic (Glenn Close in a brief, striking cameo) steps in to help.
    — Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of tales
Noun
  • Shapiro emphasized more than once that media giants courting audiences need to think in terms of generations and affinity groups, not the age and gender demos of yore.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Bumper earnings from bellwether tech giants Anthropic and TSMC did little to assuage a market that has turned bearish on the AI trade, sending stocks plummeting.
    — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • People love spy stories, but there is nothing amusing, or romantic, about this one.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Long initially envisioned the event as an art exhibition, with the cars as the artwork and their owners’ stories providing the human connection.
    — Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of stories
Noun
  • Next week, find out how monsters, ghouls and slashers can also mean big bucks.
    — Ayesha Rascoe, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The story begins in 1990, when John Eng, an endocrinologist at the Veterans Administration, isolated a peptide from the venom of Gila monsters, the nearly two-foot-long lizards native to the Southwest.
    — Dr. Bowman Heiden, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • Instead of young dinosaurs, these were actually adult examples of an entirely separate species now known as Nanotyrannus lancensis.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The results were compared with the skulls of other two-legged meat-eating dinosaurs, such as tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs and raptors.
    — Archie Clarke, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
Noun
  • In ancient California, they are believed to have existed alongside other extinct native species, including bison-sized Jefferson’s ground sloths, Columbian mammoths and western camels.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • See fossils of the 14-foot, 20,000-pound mammoths that used to roam around Texas.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of mammoths

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“Whoppers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whoppers. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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