"That's a whopper," I said to a friend, while eating a hamburger. He looked puzzled, and then glanced at the food in my hands--we were at McDonalds. Right, I thought...
He had been telling me a very unlikely story--and a big one at that. So that's really the meaning, or the two meanings of "whopper." It's also why, ahem, Burger King took it over. Their "whopper" is a BIG hamburger.
All that makes sense. The word comes from Middle English, and meant originally to strike with a heavy blow. So how did it get its present meaning? Don't know--but it works for Burger King!
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