Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Something strikingly large of its kind; a big thing; a whopper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. One who whacks.
- noun colloq. Anything very large; specif., a great lie; a whopper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or something which,
whacks . - noun Anything
large ; awhopper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something especially big or impressive of its kind
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Examples
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"It's a long story," said Hunston, taking breath, and thinking up a good plausible "whacker"; "so I'll tell you without all the details."
Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece Bracebridge Hemyng 1871
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Now, if you have ever been fishing, you will not wonder that I was led on, forgetting all about danger, and taking no heed of the time, but shouting in a childish way whenever I caught a 'whacker'
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Meslar will be the guest "whacker" at a CPAC-sponsored party in Georgetown.
Center for American Progress Action Fund Zaid Jilani 2010
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Meslar will be the guest "whacker" at a CPAC-sponsored party in Georgetown.
RHRealityCheck.org Robin Marty 2010
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Meslar will be the guest "whacker" at a CPAC-sponsored party in Georgetown.
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Trinidad and Tobago, whatever the level of crime, has not reached the stage where a man could be shot just for having a "whacker", however acquired, in his car.
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And did they mistake, in the dark of night, a protruding part of the "whacker" he had with him for a gun they thought he was about to turn on them?
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By all the available accounts there was nothing untoward about Ashby having the "whacker" either since it belonged to the school where he worked and he had reportedly signed for the grass-cutting device before borrowing it to do some work at his own home.
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Meslar will be the guest “whacker” at a CPAC-sponsored party in Georgetown.
Think Progress » CPAC will feature a Pelosi piñata and Reid punching bag. 2010
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Which even got the brush-whacker-in-chief back to DC for the support that unconstitutional idiocy.
hernesheir commented on the word whacker
Big.
February 13, 2011