walloper
Britishnoun
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a person or thing that wallops
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slang a policeman
Example Sentences
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To be fair, all his recent tracks have been rubbish but Mercy, an epic soul-rave walloper is the opposite of rubbish, so good luck with this one, B!
From The Guardian • May 4, 2018
Chief walloper Kevin "KP" Pietersen is ruled out through injury, so the onus is on Joe Root and Eoin Morgan to provide the middle-order aggression.
From The Guardian • May 31, 2013
He has laid a veneer of American-style street smarts on the skills of the hamal, or dock walloper, who learned survival on the wharves of Turkish Constantinople.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the San Francisco dock walloper who hasn't the foggiest notion where South Bend is but knows every player on the Irish squad.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the body flopped onto the pile, the whole wagonload of flies jumped into the air like lice from a walloper.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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