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walloper

9.9

A bold, obvious lie

noun

: mentira descarada

He told us a complete walloper about why he was late.

Examples

Everyone knew that story was a total walloper.
He told a huge walloper about his vacation.
Don't believe him—he always comes up with a walloper when he gets in trouble.
That story was just a walloper!
Don't believe him—he always comes up with a walloper when he gets in trouble.
Everyone knew that story was a total walloper.
He told us a complete walloper about why he was late.

Synonyms

whopper

vswalloper

Informal

13 7.0

A very big lie that is hard to believe

is more about bold shamelessness than about size or exaggeration

bullcrap

vswalloper

Offensive

9 9.7

Something not true that people say to fool others

is a specific outrageous untruth rather than casual nonsense or insult

bald-faced lie

vswalloper

Informal

3 5.4

An obvious statement that is not true and said without shame

is similar but stresses brazen audacity rather than only shamelessness

Antonyms

fact

∞ 1.0

Something that can be shown to be true, not an opinion

truth

∞ 1.0

A fact that shows how things really are

Compounds

dock-walloper

Archaic

9.9

A worker who loads and unloads goods from ships at a port

real walloper

Archaic

9.8

A person who is very good at a job and gets great results

How Outrageous

walloper

9.9

whopper

Informal

13 7.0

lie

∞ 2.7

to fib

Informal

4 3.9

Surface Forms

walloper singular

wallopers plural

Morphology

walloper = wallop (opaque) = wallop + er

The sense 'an obvious or outrageous lie' cannot be derived from the literal meaning 'to hit/defeat', so the relation to 'wallop' is semantically non-transparent (likely slangal extension or confusion with 'whopper').

Etymology

Walloper is sometimes used like whopper, which means 'a big lie'. A helpful way to remember this sense is to think of a story that 'hits' you as false — a bold, obvious untruth.