[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

whapping \whap"ping\, whopping \whop"ping\, a.
   very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story.
   colloq.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

whop
     v 1: hit hard; "the teacher whacked the boy" syn: whack, wham,
           wallop
     2: hit hard syn: sock, bop, whap, bonk, bash
     also: whopping, whopped
see also:
whack wham wallop sock bop whap 
bonk bash whopping whopped 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

whopping
     adj : used informally very large; "a thumping loss" syn: humongous,
            banging, thumping, walloping
     adv : extremely; "they all were whopping drunk"
see also:
humongous banging thumping walloping 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

whopping
     see whop
see also:
whop 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

37 moby thesaurus words for "whopping":
   awful, awfully, banging, big, bumping, clobbering, colossal,
   crushing defeat, damned, decisive defeat, enormous, exceedingly,
   gargantuan, gigantic, highly, hugely, immense, mighty, much,
   no contest, overwhelming defeat, pasting, prodigious, shellacking,
   slapping, smashing defeat, smearing, spanking, thumping,
   thundering, total defeat, utter defeat, walloping, whacking,
   whaling, whitewash, whitewashing

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