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whoppernoun a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceivetold a whopper to get out of jury duty fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle(or tarradiddle), untruth distortion, exaggeration, half-truthambiguity, equivocation, obliquitydefamation, libel, slanderperjurybluff, fiction, pose, pretense(or pretence)humbug, jive, nonsensecanard, fallacy, misconception, mythfalsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatementdeceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence truth fact, truism, verityhonesty, truthfulness, veracityauthentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification something that is unusually large and powerfula whopper of a fish that won first prize in the derby the season finale ended with a whopper of a cliffhanger behemoth, blockbuster, colossus, dinosaur, dreadnought, elephant, giant, Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, mastodon, monster, titan, whale amazon, giantessbulk, hulkheavyweightjuggernaut, steamroller diminutive, dwarf, half-pint, midget, mite, peewee, pygmy(also pigmy), runt, shrimp lightweight, weakling, wimp, wispnonentity, twerp, whippersnapper ca. 1712 |