wallop

[ wol-uhp ]

verb (used with object)

1. to beat soundly; thrash.
2. Informal. to strike with a vigorous blow; belt; sock:

   After two strikes, he walloped the ball out of the park.

3. Informal. to defeat thoroughly, as in a game.

   Synonyms: best, crush, rout, trounce

4. Chiefly Scot. to flutter, wobble, or flop about.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to move violently and clumsily:

   The puppy walloped down the walk.

2. (of a liquid) to boil violently.
3. Obsolete. to gallop.

noun

1. a vigorous blow.
2. the ability to deliver vigorous blows, as in boxing:

   That fist of his packs a wallop.

3. Informal.
   1. the ability to effect a forceful impression; punch:

      That ad packs a wallop.

   2. a pleasurable thrill; kick:

      The joke gave them all a wallop.

4. Informal. a violent, clumsy movement; lurch.
5. Obsolete. a gallop.

wallop

/ ˈwɒləp /

verb

1. informal.
   tr to beat soundly; strike hard
2. informal.
   tr to defeat utterly
3. dialect.
   intr to move in a clumsy manner
4. intr (of liquids) to boil violently

noun

1. informal.
   a hard blow
2. informal.
   the ability to hit powerfully, as of a boxer
3. informal.
   a forceful impression
4. See beer
   a slang word for beer

verb

1. See gallop
   an obsolete word for gallop

Other Words From

• wallop·er noun
• outwallop verb (used with object)

Word History and Origins

Origin of wallop¹

1300–50; Middle English walopen to gallop, wal ( l ) op gallop < Anglo-French waloper (v.), walop (noun), Old French galoper, galop; gallop

Word History and Origins

Origin of wallop¹

C14: from Old Northern French waloper to gallop, from Old French galoper, of unknown origin

Idioms and Phrases

see pack a punch (wallop) .

Example Sentences

It’s the howl, the crash bang wallop, you know, the cry of a soul setting itself on fire.

From Time

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.

From Popular-Science

The book then sustains a relentless focus on explaining and documenting the wallop packed by the simple and omnipresent error of noise — and what decision-makers can do about it.

From Washington Post

Friends 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.

From Outside Online

In the 1930s, psychiatrists discovered that a massive wallop of seizure-inducing electricity could sometimes relieve psychiatric symptoms.

From Science News

And because Whitehurst took his FBI oath seriously, he wallop-slapped crime lab protocols into the 21st Century.

From The Daily Beast

Her fantastical accumulations of detritus and throwaway goods can seem to pack more whimsy than wallop.

From The Daily Beast

It wasn't much, as cannons go, but it packed a much stronger wallop than the flintlocks and shotguns most men owned.

From The Daily Beast

She married twice, first to Quentin Wallop, 10th Earl of Portsmouth, and then to the Oxford academic Fram Dinshaw.

From The Daily Beast

He gave her permission later in the trial to slap/wallop/hit/punch/smack/bop him again and the result was fantastic.

From The Daily Beast

I wonder if Bert's had anything to eat since he got the wallop on the coco?

From Project Gutenberg

For quite surely I saw Angus Jones fetch the jungle monarch but the one wallop with his oar.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

And therewithal he groaned piteously, and rode a great wallop away-ward from them until he came under a wood's side.

From Project Gutenberg

That measly little tap of yours in the last round was certainly a soporific wallop.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• clobber
• drub
• pummel
• smack
• whack