Wallop

//ˈwɒl.əp// name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A heavy blow, a punch. countable, uncountable

    "he gave him a mighty wallop"

  2. 2
    a severe blow wordnet
  3. 3
    A person's ability to throw such punches. countable, uncountable

    "this guy's got some wallop"

  4. 4
    a forceful consequence; a strong effect wordnet
  5. 5
    An emotional impact, a psychological force. countable, uncountable

    "that film has some serious wallop"

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  1. 6
    A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction. countable, uncountable
  2. 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.""

  3. 8
    A thick piece of fat. archaic, countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A quick rolling movement; a gallop. Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To rush hastily. intransitive
  2. 2
    To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server. Internet
  3. 3
    defeat soundly and utterly wordnet
  4. 4
    To flounder, wallow. intransitive
  5. 5
    strike hard wordnet
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  1. 6
    To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.

    "Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte."

  2. 7
    To strike heavily, thrash soundly. transitive

    "Tony got walloped round the face by Mike."

  3. 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."

  4. 9
    To wrap up temporarily. transitive
  5. 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."

  6. 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. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

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Example

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"That brand of tequila really packs a wallop."

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.

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