wallop

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɒl.əp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑ.ləp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒləp
• Hyphenation: wal‧lop

From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman , 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 (“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.

wallop (countable and uncountable, plural wallops)

1. A heavy blow, punch.

   he gave him a mighty wallop

2. A person's ability to throw such punches.

   this guy's got some wallop

3. An emotional impact, psychological force.

   that film has some serious wallop

4. A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
5. (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four:

     "You're a gent," said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. "Pint!" he added aggressively to the barman. "Pint of wallop."

6. (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
7. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

• (beer): codswallop
• pack a wallop

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping or wallopping, simple past and past participle walloped or wallopped)

1. (intransitive) To rush hastily.
2. (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
   • 1579, Laurence Thomson, A wee note on Calvin's (wordy) sermons:

     Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte.

4. (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.

   Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.

5. (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.

   The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.

6. (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
7. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
   • 1822, James Hogg, Siege of Roxburgh:

     Saluting the far loin of his mare […] with an energy that made all his accoutrements wallop.

   • 1872, Joseph C. Hart, Miriam Coffin: Or, The Whale-fisherman, page 208:

     The second act commenced, and the old-fashioned sixpenny waves of Drury did their best, and wallopped about, under a canvas blanket representing the sea, and dashed against the rocks and tall cliffs of the scene to admiration.

8. To eat or drink with gusto.
   • 1910, Hilaire Belloc, On Something - Volume 10, page 69:

     St. Peter will befriend me then, Because my name is Peter too; I know him for the best of men That ever wallopped barley brew.

   • 2010, William Routledge, Oh Yes, Oh Yes, We are the PPS:

     A greasy spoon café was found, big brekkies ordered and soon walloped down.

   • 2019, Mary S. Watts, The Tenants: An Episode of the '80s:

     "Huh! Touch o' green was a fig-leaf, I s'pose—hope so, anyhow!" said Mrs. Botlisch, and "wallopped" down another oyster.

• walloper
• walloping

Clipping of write to all operators.

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)

1. (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967