wallop
Plural: wallops
Noun
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
- "the book packs a wallop"
- a severe blow
- A heavy blow, punch.
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- An emotional impact, psychological force.
- A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
- Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.
- A thick piece of fat.
- A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
Verb
Verb Forms: walloped, walloping, wallops
- To hit or strike with a hard, heavy blow; to thrash.
- hit hard
- defeat soundly and utterly
- "We'll wallop them!"
- To rush hastily.
- To flounder, wallow.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- To wrap up temporarily.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
Examples
- he gave him a mighty wallop
- He managed to wallop his opponent with a 100-point play, securing the win.
- that film has some serious wallop
- The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.
- this guy's got some wallop
- Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 11
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