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wal⋅lop

[wol-uh

–verb (used with object)

1.	to beat soundly; thrash.

2.	Informal. to strike with a vigorous blow; belt; sock: After two strikes, he walloped the ball out of the park.

3.	Informal. to defeat thoroughly, as in a game.

4.	Chiefly Scot. to flutter, wobble, or flop about.

–verb (used without object)

5.	Informal. to move violently and clumsily: The puppy walloped down the walk.

6.	(of a liquid) to boil violently.

7.	Obsolete. to gallop.

–noun

8.	a vigorous blow.

9.	the ability to deliver vigorous blows, as in boxing: That fist of his packs a wallop.

10.

Informal.

a.	the ability to effect a forceful impression; punch: That ad packs a wallop.

b.	a pleasurable thrill; kick: The joke gave them all a wallop.

11.	Informal. a violent, clumsy movement; lurch.

12.	Obsolete. a gallop.

Origin:
1300–50; ME walopen to gallop, wal(l)op gallop < AF waloper (v.), walop (n.), OF galoper, galop; see gallop

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Language Translation for : Wallop

Spanish:

golpear, pegar fuerte; zurrar,

German:

(ver)prügeln,

Japanese:

なぐりつける

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wal·lop   (wŏl'əp) Pronunciation Key
v.   wal·loped, wal·lop·ing, wal·lops

v.   tr.

To beat soundly; thrash.
To strike with a hard blow.
To defeat thoroughly.

v. intr.

To move in a rolling, clumsy manner; waddle.
To boil noisily. Used of a liquid.

A hard or severe blow.
1. The ability to strike a powerful blow: has a punch that delivers a wallop.
2. The capacity to create a forceful effect: "Therein lies the novel's emotional wallop and moral message" (George F. Will).

[Middle English walopen, to gallop, from Old North French *waloper; see wel-¹ in Indo-European roots.]
wal'lop·er n.

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wallop (v.)

1375, "to gallop," possibly from O.N.Fr. *waloper (13c.), probably from Frankish *walalaupan "to run well" (cf. O.H.G. wela "well" and Old Low Franconian loupon "to run, leap"). The verb meaning "to thrash" (1820) and the noun meaning "heavy blow" (1823) may be separate developments, of imitative origin.

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wallop
noun
1.	a forceful consequence; a strong effect; "the book had an important impact on my thinking"; "the book packs a wallop" [syn: impact]
2.	a severe blow
verb
1.	hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack]
2.	defeat soundly and utterly; "We'll wallop them!"

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wallop

see pack a punch (wallop).

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Wallop

Wal"lop\, v. i. [Cf. OFlem. walop a gallop; of uncertain origin. Cf. Gallop.] To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Wallop

Wal"lop\, n. A quick, rolling movement; a gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Wallop

Wal"lop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Walloped; p. pr. & vb. n. Walloping.] [Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to boil or bubble. [root]147. See Well, n. & v. i.]

1. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. [Prov. Eng.] --Brockett.

2. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

3. To be slatternly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

Wallop

Wal"lop\, v. t. 1. To beat soundly; to flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S.]

2. To wrap up temporarily. [Prov. Eng.]

3. To throw or tumble over. [Prov. Eng.]

Wallop

Wal"lop\, n. 1. A thick piece of fat. --Halliwell.

2. A blow. [Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S.]