I. ˈwäləp also ˈwȯl- noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English wallop, walop, from Old North French walop, from waloper to gallop
1. obsolete : gallop
2. obsolete : a bubbling motion and sound (as of a boiling substance)
let it only boil five or six wallops — George Hartman
3. chiefly Britain : a noisy clumsy movement of the body
a sagging sack of flesh … he went in with a wallop — Adrian Bell
4.
a. : a powerful blow : punch II 2
got a hard wallop in the mouth — Baltimore (Md.) Sun
the wallops from the wind made you feel tired — Greville Texidor
b. : something resembling a wallop especially in sudden jarring force
the sight of him hit my dried-up soul a wallop — New York Herald Tribune
woodwinds … underlined by an explosive percussive wallop — Aaron Copland
c. : the ability (as of a boxer) to hit hard
has a terrific wallop in his left hand
5.
a. : effective physical, emotional, or psychological force or influence : impact
the wallop from an atomic bomb — New York Times
full page advertising … carries a tremendous sales wallop — Playthings
a movie with a dramatic wallop
cannot pack the political wallop needed to swing Congress — New Republic
b. : a pleasant or exciting emotional response : thrill , kick
the kids … get a big wallop out of it — Robert Wilder
6. Britain : beer I
was a great one for wallop and darts with the villagers in the local — Angus Wilson
II. verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Middle English walopen, from Old North French waloper
intransitive verb
1. obsolete : gallop
2.
a. : to move with reckless or disorganized haste : advance in a headlong rush
a fat spaniel dog … walloped along the deck — D.C.Russell
ships … were walloping across the Atlantic freighted with more cigars — Aldous Huxley
b.
(1) : to move violently and often noisily about : wallow
sea-beasts who roared and rolled and walloped — Rudyard Kipling
the very cows joined in … walloping, tail lashing — Virginia Woolf
(2) : to progress in a lurching ungainly manner : flounder
watched the old car wallop down the rutted lane
3. : to boil with a loud bubbling noise
an immense pot … surging and walloping with some kind of savory stew — Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. chiefly Scotland : to flap about : flutter , flop
keep his nether garments from walloping behind him — Peter McNeill
transitive verb
1.
a. : to thrash soundly (as with the hands or fists) : beat , pound , lambaste
always doing the wrong thing and being walloped for it — Ruth Park
walloped the living daylights out of his attacker
b. : to gain a decisive victory over : beat by a wide margin : trounce
walloped him in the first match they played — Jack Barnaby
walloped the champions 10 to 3 yesterday — Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican
2.
a. : to hit with great force : sock , slug
unfortunately … it was a gendarme I had walloped — H.A.Chippendale
b.
(1) : to send (as a baseball) a long distance by a solid hit
walloped the ball against the facade of the third deck — New York Times
(2) : to get (as a run in baseball) by batting well
walloped 16 home runs last season
3. : to scrub (kitchen utensils) clean
by night he walloped pots and pans in a hotel kitchen — R.M.Yoder
4. : to move (as material for shipment) by hand
togged like the rest of the gang … he wallops sacks of sugar, coal, assorted cargo — Time