wallop
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
wallop (plural wallops)
- A heavy blow, punch.
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- An emotional impact, psychological force.
- A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
- (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."
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four,
- (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- Spanish: zurra, galletazo
wallop (wallops, present participle walloping; past and past participle walloped)
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- To be slatternly.
wallop (wallops, present participle walloping; past and past participle walloped)
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