Meaning of whomper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who or that which whomps.
   slang
2. A whopper; something remarkably large or intense.
   colloquial

Examples

“A magazine columnist found proof of this some time ago when he printed an item stating that Richard Widmark was not at all a hard guy, but a gentle, scholarly chap who wouldn’t hurt a fly, let alone an old lady. […] Fans wrote in by the hundreds calling the columnist a liar, demanding retraction, and vowing that they had actual proof that Richard was ‘by nature a woman-whomper and tougher than Mike Mazurki.”

““I see a quick light in many a^([sic]) eye here. And well you might look smart, for these two beauties is bear killers, wolf whompers and gut rippers made with my own hands.[…]””

““A whomper, a weirdo, and a crazie,” Wally answered, reciting the nicknames they’d given Eddie, Beth, and Caroline—Eddie, for the way she could hit a ball; Beth, for the kind of books she read; and Caroline, for turning everything that ever happened to her into a movie.”

““Why don’t I have Ox sharpen his axe?” Sorgan suggested. “It sort of sounds to me like maybe it’s ‘whomp’ time again.” “It probably would solve some problems, Dahlaine,” Zelana agreed, “and Ox is probably one of the best whompers available to us.””

“(Orson Oliphant landed in a town full of whap-whompers and stamp-stompers. They whomped and stomped one another every day. It was a hard place to be happy, mostly.)”

“I can't decide. Did Ryan Howard have the greatest year any 199-strikeout whiff machine ever had? Or did he have the roughest year any 48-homer whomper ever had? Hey, you've got me. You figure it out.”

“They stretched her between them so that it all hung out, and then, swinging her chest over the faces of the unconscious, they tried to tit everybody awake. She had hogans, two turgid glands of them. Real whompers. Her tits cascaded all over their faces like soft, brown punching bags.”

“De only modern convenience dat dey got is dem old strips of auto tire dat dey wears for shoes when dey comes up to Georgetown, what dey calls "whompers." Dat right, Wodie?”

“"Not much. All she has to do is sing and flop those big old whompers of hers around and she gets everything she ever wanted — money, recording contracts, TV, the works. Maybe even me for a while, if she plays her cards right."”

“You are drinking a frosty bear and wearing big furry whompers on your feet”

“It is the second week of December, and we are about to get a whomper. “Blizzard of the decade,” said ok Jay Moore in the Morning on Moose Country 106.7, […]”

“"Oh! Well, I was thinking, on the whole, I prefer the rain to the snow." "Ah. We do have a lot of rain in winter here, and usually not much snow, though two years ago there was a whomper."”

“Dozen held out a hand and my clutch to me. I took them both, and he pulled me to my feet. “Car bomb,” I said. “A whomper.””

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