What does "wallop" mean?
A heavy blow, a punch.
Wallop
/ˈwɒl.əp/ name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A heavy blow, a punch.
- Grammar: wallop is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: bang, bash, baste, bastinado.
- Useful contrasts: concede, evade, forfeit.
- Usage evidence: That brand of tequila really packs a wallop.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A heavy blow, a punch. countable, uncountable
"he gave him a mighty wallop"
- 2 a severe blow wordnet
- 3 A person's ability to throw such punches. countable, uncountable
"this guy's got some wallop"
- 4 a forceful consequence; a strong effect wordnet
- 5 An emotional impact, a psychological force. countable, uncountable
"that film has some serious wallop"
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- 6 A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction. countable, uncountable
- 7 Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash. slang, uncountable
""You're a gent," said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. "Pint!" he added aggressively to the barman. "Pint of wallop.""
- 8 A thick piece of fat. archaic, countable, uncountable
- 9 A quick rolling movement; a gallop. Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To rush hastily. intransitive
- 2 To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server. Internet
- 3 defeat soundly and utterly wordnet
- 4 To flounder, wallow. intransitive
- 5 strike hard wordnet
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- 6 To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
"Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte."
- 7 To strike heavily, thrash soundly. transitive
"Tony got walloped round the face by Mike."
- 8 To trounce, beat by a wide margin. transitive
"The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them."
- 9 To wrap up temporarily. transitive
- 10 To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
"Saluting the far loin of his mare[…]with an energy that made all his accoutrements wallop."
- 11 To eat or drink with gusto.
"St. Peter will befriend me then, Because my name is Peter too; I know him for the best of men That ever wallopped barley brew."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Example
"That brand of tequila really packs a wallop."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "wallop"?
Common synonyms include: bang, bash, baste, bastinado, bat, batter.
How do you use "wallop" in a sentence?
That brand of tequila really packs a wallop.
How do you pronounce "wallop"?
Pronounced /ˈwɒl.əp/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.
Etymology 2
Clipping of write to all operators.