walloper
Noun
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Noun
walloper (plural wallopers)
- One who wallop#Verb|wallops.
- (Ireland) A cudgel, a shillelagh.
- (Scotland, slang, pejorative, vulgar) penis; (by extension) an idiot, a stupid person.
- (Australia, slang, jocular) A policeman, a male police officer.
- 1950, Frank Hardy, Power Without Glory,
- Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!
- 1971, John O'Grady, Dealing with Cops, in Aussie Etiket, quoted in 1988, Aussie Humour, Macmillan, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 200,
- Uniformed cops are generally known as ‘wallopers’, and cops in plain clothes are called ‘demons’. These latter, supposed to be disguised, are instantly recognisable.
- 2006, Andrew Stafford, Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden, page 106 ↗,
- Understandably the wallopers were called, and they cleared everybody out.
- 1950, Frank Hardy, Power Without Glory,
- (police officer) see Thesaurus:police officer
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