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wal⋅lop

  [wol-uhp]
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–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

Related forms:
wal⋅lop⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
3. trounce, rout, crush, best.
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wal·lop   (wŏl'əp)   
v.   wal·loped, wal·lop·ing, wal·lops

v.   tr.

  1. To beat soundly; thrash.

  2. To strike with a hard blow.

  3. To defeat thoroughly.

v.   intr.

  1. To move in a rolling, clumsy manner; waddle.

  2. To boil noisily. Used of a liquid.

n.  

  1. 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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
wallop [ˈwɑləp]

  1. n.
    a hard blow. : She planted a hard wallop on his right shoulder.
  2. tv.
    to strike someone or something hard. : The door swung open and walloped me in the back.
  3. n.
    influence; pull; clout. : I don't have enough wallop to make that kind of demand.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

wallop

see pack a punch (wallop).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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