- present participle of whop.
whopping
Example Sentences
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The lawsuit seeks a whopping $1.4 trillion in damages from the company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
South Korea's SK hynix said Wednesday second-quarter net profit soared a whopping 1,242 percent year-on-year, driven by the artificial intelligence industry's explosive demand for its advanced memory chips.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
The attack took a whopping 17,000 actions on Hugging Face’s network, the company said in a blog post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Sentencing him on Wednesday, Judge Paul Hobson said the Griffiths "simply didn't care" about his victims when he told "whopping lies".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
