walloper

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Etymology

From wallop +‎ -er.

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Noun

walloper (plural wallopers)

  1. One who wallops.
  2. (Ireland) A cudgel, a shillelagh.
  3. (Scotland, slang, derogatory, vulgar) penis; (by extension) an idiot, a stupid person.
  4. (Australia) A police officer.
    • 1950, Frank Hardy, Power Without Glory:
      Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!
    • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 84:
      Two days later we were picked up by the wallopers on Clucas' information.
    • 2006, Andrew Stafford, Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden, page 106:
      Understandably the wallopers were called, and they cleared everybody out.
  5. (slang) Something big; a whopper.
    • 1969, Field & Stream, volume 74, number 1, page 138:
      I'd had some wonderful fishing, but I hadn't landed a real walloper.

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