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单词 walloper
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wallopern.

Brit. /ˈwɒləpə/, U.S. /ˈwɑləpər/
Etymology: < wallop v. + -er suffix1.
colloquial or jocular.
1.
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a. One who thrashes.
b. Anything with which one administers a thrashing; a stick.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun]
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1832 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times III. 256 Armed with his ‘walloper’ (as they called their cudgel).
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2. dialect. Anything strikingly large or big; a ‘thumper’, ‘whopper’; e.g. an astounding lie. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.)
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3. As second element in compounds.cod-, dock-, potwalloper: see the first element.
4. Australian slang. A policeman.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman
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1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. vii. 137 We also call a policeman a..walloper.
1954 Coast to Coast 1953–4 175 A showman he was. Knock-around man. Always two jumps ahead of the wallopers.
1968 D. O'Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 54 Roebourne boasted one pub, one police station with two wallopers in it,..and a hospital.
1981 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Jan. 391 I could quite happily call them my friends. I could never think of them as wallopers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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