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• n  a gross untruth; a blatant lie
• n  something especially big or impressive of its kind

• Burger King cooked up a whopper of a different sort in 1998, but that didn't mean that fast-food customers were any less willing to swallow it.
• This is the season of political whoppers--apparent falsehoods told in the public sphere with a straight face.
• Ah, John Boehner couldn't wait a day before retailing a whopper about the President's health care plan: The President also said that nothing will require you to change your plan.

• walloper
• whacker

News & Articles

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• See Burger King's hands-free Whopper holder
  Burger King is handing out 50 hands-free Whopper holders. The fast food chain has a video that shows all the activities you can do now that your hands aren't tied up eating a burger.
  June 11, 2013 - Detroit Free Press
• 3G shuffles CEOs on completion of Heinz deal
  3G shuffles CEOs on completion of Heinz deal The company, which also makes baked beans, vinegar and Classico pasta sauce, said that it completed its acquisition by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital, the Brazilian investment firm that also owns Burger King. Daniel Schwartz, 32, had been serving as chief operating officer of the fast-food chain known for its Whopper sandwich. Hees ...
  June 8, 2013 - seattlepi.com
• BLOG: Sandoval launches “Big Lie” re-election campaign
  The “Big Lie” is a propaganda technique embraced by the communists in which the offending party tells a whopper so “colossal” that the public would refuse to believe anyone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.
  June 6, 2013 - FOX 11 Reno

Quotes

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• Kenneth Rogoff in Reuters
  We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper, we're going to see a big one, one of the big investment banks or big banks,said Rogoff, who is an economics professor at Harvard...
• Shaun Hill in International Herald Tribune
  I'd say the first one was probably a nice 4-pound bass,Hill said, comparing his TD throws. "The last one was a whopper. The last one was one you put on your wall - 8-pound in Missouri, 11 out here."
• Greg Hunt in The Age
  As far as broken election promises go, this is a whopper,Mr Hunt said. "This is a whale of a broken promise."