wallop
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.
Informal. to move violently and clumsily: The puppy walloped down the walk.
(of a liquid) to boil violently.
Obsolete. to gallop.
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.
Origin of wallop
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Other words from wallop
- wal·lop·er, noun
- outwallop, verb (used with object)
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How to use wallop in a sentence
It’s the howl, the crash bang wallop, you know, the cry of a soul setting itself on fire.
The Delta Pro alone packs a 3,600Wh wallop, and you can expand that to 25,000Wh by chaining it to extra EcoFlow batteries and generators.
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How to turn down the noise that mars our decision-making | Robert Sutton | May 21, 2021 | Washington PostFriends warned me about a kind of otherworldly wallop upon arrival, but nothing could prepare me for the feeling I had seeing it for the very first time.
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And because Whitehurst took his FBI oath seriously, he wallop-slapped crime lab protocols into the 21st Century.
Crime Fighter’s Dilemma: My Country or My Family? | Moral Courage | April 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHer 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.
Paul Begala: Ted Cruz and Texas’s Tea Party Revolution | Paul Begala | August 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTShe married twice, first to Quentin wallop, 10th Earl of Portsmouth, and then to the Oxford academic Fram Dinshaw.
Blindness as a Way of Seeing: Candia McWilliam’s Powerful Memoir | Lucy Scholes | April 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe 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?
The Call of the Beaver Patrol | V. T. ShermanFor quite surely I saw Angus Jones fetch the jungle monarch but the one wallop with his oar.
Where the Pavement Ends | John RussellThen came there by them a knight with a bended shield of azure, whose name was Epinogris, and he came toward them a great wallop.
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) | Thomas MaloryAnd therewithal he groaned piteously, and rode a great wallop away-ward from them until he came under a wood's side.
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) | Thomas MaloryThat measly little tap of yours in the last round was certainly a soporific wallop.
The New Boys at Oakdale | Morgan Scott
British Dictionary definitions for wallop
/ (ˈwɒləp) /
(tr) informal to beat soundly; strike hard
(tr) informal to defeat utterly
(intr) dialect to move in a clumsy manner
(intr) (of liquids) to boil violently
informal a hard blow
informal the ability to hit powerfully, as of a boxer
informal a forceful impression
British a slang word for beer
an obsolete word for gallop
Origin of wallop
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with wallop
see pack a punch (wallop).
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