Wallop
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English
Noun
Wallop (plural Wallops)- A heavy blow, punch.
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- An emotional impact, psychological force.
- A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang) anything produced by a process that involves boiling; Beer, tea, whitewash.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four,
- "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."
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four,
- (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
Derived terms
- (beer): codswallop
Verb
Wallop (third-person singular simple present Wallops, present participle wallopping, simple past and past participle wallopped)
- (intransitive) To rush hastily
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow
- (intransitive) To boil noisily
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by wide.
Derived terms
Verb
Wallop (third-person singular simple present Wallops, present participle Walloping, simple past and past participle Walloped)
- (Internet) To write a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
Thesaurus
bang, bash, baste, bastinado, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belt, biff, birch, blast, blunder, bonk, boot, bop, buffet, bump, cane, careen, career, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout, club, clump, coldcock, collision, cowhide, crack, crash, cudgel, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dress down, drub, falter, fetch, fetch a blow, flagellate, flail, flap, flax, flog, flounce, flounder, fustigate, give a dressing-down, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, hide, hit, hit a clip, horsewhip, jab, jar, jolt, kick, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, knout, labor, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lather, lay on, leather, let have it, lick, lurch, maul, paddle, paste, patter, pelt, percussion, pistol-whip, pitch, pitch and plunge, plunge, plunk, poke, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, punch, rap, rawhide, reel, rock, roll, scourge, seethe, shellac, shock, slam, sledgehammer, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, spank, stagger, strap, strike, strike at, stripe, struggle, stumble, swat, sway, swing, swinge, swipe, switch, tan, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thump, thwack, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, trim, trounce, truncheon, tumble, wallow, welt, welter, whack, whale, wham, whip, whop, yerk
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Old Northern French walop (“gallop (noun)”) and waloper (“to gallop (verb)”).
Etymology 2
From the acronym: write [to] all operators
Translations
Noun
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
