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wallop
[ wol-uhp ]
verb (used with object)
- to beat soundly; thrash.
- Informal. to strike with a vigorous blow; belt; sock:
After two strikes, he walloped the ball out of the park.
- Informal. to defeat thoroughly, as in a game.
- Chiefly Scot. to flutter, wobble, or flop about.
verb (used without object)
- Informal. to move violently and clumsily:
The puppy walloped down the walk.
- (of a liquid) to boil violently.
- Obsolete. to gallop.
noun
- a vigorous blow.
- the ability to deliver vigorous blows, as in boxing:
That fist of his packs a wallop.
- Informal.
- the ability to effect a forceful impression; punch:
That ad packs a wallop.
- a pleasurable thrill; kick:
The joke gave them all a wallop.
- Informal. a violent, clumsy movement; lurch.
- Obsolete. a gallop.
wallop
/ ˈwɒləp /
verb
- informal.tr to beat soundly; strike hard
- informal.tr to defeat utterly
- dialect.intr to move in a clumsy manner
- intr (of liquids) to boil violently
noun
- informal.a hard blow
- informal.the ability to hit powerfully, as of a boxer
- informal.a forceful impression
- a slang word for beer
verb
- an obsolete word for gallop
Other Words From
- wallop·er noun
- outwallop verb (used with object)
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of wallop1
Idioms and Phrases
see pack a punch (wallop) .Example Sentences
And because Whitehurst took his FBI oath seriously, he wallop-slapped crime lab protocols into the 21st Century.
Her fantastical accumulations of detritus and throwaway goods can seem to pack more whimsy than wallop.
It wasn't much, as cannons go, but it packed a much stronger wallop than the flintlocks and shotguns most men owned.
She married twice, first to Quentin Wallop, 10th Earl of Portsmouth, and then to the Oxford academic Fram Dinshaw.
He gave her permission later in the trial to slap/wallop/hit/punch/smack/bop him again and the result was fantastic.
I wonder if Bert's had anything to eat since he got the wallop on the coco?
For quite surely I saw Angus Jones fetch the jungle monarch but the one wallop with his oar.
Then came there by them a knight with a bended shield of azure, whose name was Epinogris, and he came toward them a great wallop.
And therewithal he groaned piteously, and rode a great wallop away-ward from them until he came under a wood's side.
That measly little tap of yours in the last round was certainly a soporific wallop.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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