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wallop

noun
/ˈwɒl.əp/UK/ˈwɑ.ləp/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *wel-✻ — “death in battle, killed in battle”
  2. derived from *walhlaup✻ — “battle run”
  3. derived from *klaub-✻ — “to spring, stumble”
  4. derived from *hlaupaną✻ — “to run, leap, spring”
  5. derived from *wala hlaupan✻ — “to run well”
  6. derived from walop — “gallop”
  7. inherited from wallopen — “gallop”

Definitions

  1. A heavy blow, a punch.

    • he gave him a mighty wallop
    • An' in the twentieth we stood in the middle of the ring an' exchanged wallops even.

  2. A person's ability to throw such punches.

    • this guy's got some wallop

  3. An emotional impact, a psychological force.

    • that film has some serious wallop
  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.

    2. Anything produced by a process that involves boiling

      Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.

      • "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. A thick piece of fat.

    4. A quick rolling movement

      A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

    5. To rush hastily.

    6. To flounder, wallow.

    7. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.

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

    8. To strike heavily, thrash soundly.

      • Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.
      • “It’s just like old times. Nearly walloped the life out of me to stop me going away, and now I come back he throws a confounded shovel at my head to keep me out. It grazed my shoulder.”
      • I've been timin' his rushes an' straight-leftin' him, an' meetin' his duck with a wicked little right upper-cut, an' he's shaken me on the jaw an' walloped my ears till my head's all singin' an' buzzin'.

    9. To trounce, beat by a wide margin.

      • The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.

    10. To wrap up temporarily.

    11. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner

      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.
      • The second act commenced, and the old-fashioned sixpenny waves of Drury did their best, and wallopped about, under a canvas blanket representing the sea, and dashed against the rocks and tall cliffs of the scene to admiration.

    12. 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.
      • A greasy spoon café was found, big brekkies ordered and soon walloped down.
      • "Huh! Touch o' green was a fig-leaf, I s'pose—hope so, anyhow!" said Mrs. Botlisch, and "wallopped" down another oyster.

    13. To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.

    14. A surname.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA