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walloper

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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.
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