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[ wol-uhp ] / ˈwɒl əp / SEE SYNONYMS FOR wallop ON THESAURUS.COM
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. nouna 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 wallop1300–50; Middle English walopen to gallop, wal( l) op gallop <Anglo-French waloper (v.), walop (noun), Old French galoper, galop;see gallop SYNONYMS FOR wallop3 trounce, rout, crush, best. SEE SYNONYMS FOR wallop ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM wallopwal·lop·er, nounoutwallop, verb (used with object)Words nearby wallopwall mustard, wall of death, Wallonia, Walloon, Walloon Brabant, wallop, walloper, walloping, wallow, Wallowa Mountains, wallower Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for wallopHer fantastical accumulations of detritus and throwaway goods can seem to pack more whimsy than wallop. America Swamped by Its Plenty|Blake Gopnik|May 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST For quite surely I saw Angus Jones fetch the jungle monarch but the one wallop with his oar. Where the Pavement Ends|John Russell They should not waddle and wallop in every hollow lane, nor loll out their watery tongues at every wash-pool in the parish. Imaginary Conversations and Poems|Walter Savage Landor But he's there with the wallop, and I guess it's goin' to take more'n a commerce court to put the Corrugated out of business. Torchy, Private Sec.|Sewell Ford
He goes on: 'I take it that I have caught you in my net, and that wallop about as you will I shall land you at last. James Frederick Ferrier|Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane The next day we went out and resorted to the wallop, plain, untrimmed slugging tactics, and beat Chicago 17 to 1. Pitching in a Pinch|Christy Mathewson
British Dictionary definitions for wallop
verb -lops, -loping or -loped(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 nouninformal a hard blow informal the ability to hit powerfully, as of a boxer informal a forceful impression British a slang word for beer verb, nounan obsolete word for gallop Word Origin for wallopC14: from Old Northern French waloper to gallop, from Old French galoper, of unknown origin Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with wallop
see pack a punch (wallop). The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to wallopsmack, drub, clobber, pummel, whack, trounce, bump, collision, slam, belt, impact, jar, jolt, percussion, thump, kick, blow, crash, clash, punch |