wallop
Pronunciation Noun

wallop (plural wallops)

  1. A heavy blow, punch.
  2. A person's ability to throw such punches.
  3. An emotional impact, psychological force.
  4. A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
  5. (slang) 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.
Translations
  • Spanish: zurra, galletazo
Verb

wallop (wallops, present participle walloping; past and past participle walloped)

  1. (intransitive) To rush hastily.
  2. (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
  3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
  4. (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
  5. (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
  6. (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
  7. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
  8. To be slatternly.
Verb

wallop (wallops, present participle walloping; past and past participle walloped)

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



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