whooping
adj.adj. used to describe something that is very large or impressive. You usually use it before a number or a word for an amount.
adj. extremely large or significant in scale, amount, or intensity. Typically used attributively to emphasize a quantity or a victory.
The company reported a whooping profit this year.
The candidate won the local election by a whooping majority, taking over seventy percent of the total vote.
Despite the initial skepticism from investors, the startup secured a whooping ten million dollars in its first round of venture capital funding.
Used almost exclusively as an attributive adjective before a noun phrase denoting an amount or a win.
a whooping coughwhooping coughWhile 'whooping' describes large amounts, 'whooping cough' is a fixed medical term and does not take an article when used as a general condition.