whopping UK /ˈ(h)wɒpɪŋ/US /ˈ(h)wɑpɪŋ/adjective 1adverb 1noun 1forms 2 adjective1 •(informal) Exceptionally great or large.It weighed a whopping 700 pounds when it was full. adverb1 •(informal) Exceedingly, extremely, very.Doss and I run the house, cooking dinner—whopping great pots of stew and rice, sewing and darning clothes, ironing, bathing the kids, blacking the grate, scrubbing the doorstep, running errands. — 2000 noun1 •A beating.At least this taught me to hate violence which to me translated into thick ears or sound whoppings on the behind. — 2013 formswhoppings · whoppingest