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whompers

whompers is the plural of whomper.

Meaning of whomper

Noun

whomper (plural whompers)

  1. (slang) One who or that which whomps.
    • 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...1952 August, William Barbour, “They Want Him Bad”, in Modern Screen, volume 45, number 3, page 42
  2. (colloquial) A whopper; something remarkably large or intense.
    • 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.1973, Mark McGarrity, Lucky Shuffles, Grossman Publishers, →ISBN, page 96

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Questions about whompers

What is whompers the plural of?
Whompers is the plural of whomper.

Words near whompers in the dictionary

  1. whomped on
  2. whomped up
  3. whomper
  4. whomper-jawed
  5. whomperjawed
  6. whompers
  7. whomping
  8. whomping on
  9. whomping up
  10. whomps
  11. whomps on

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