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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