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

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• Rhymes:-ɒləp
• Hyphenation:wal‧lop

FromMiddle Englishwallopen(“gallop”), fromAnglo-Norman[Term?], fromOld Northern Frenchwalop(“gallop”,noun) andwaloper(“to gallop”,verb) (compareOld Frenchgaloper, whence modernFrenchgaloper), fromFrankish*wala hlaupan(“to run well”) from*wala(“well”) +*hlaupan(“to run”), fromProto-Germanic*hlaupaną(“to run, leap, spring”), fromProto-Indo-European*klaub-(“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal ofFrankish*walhlaup(“battle run”) from*wal(“battlefield”) fromProto-Germanic[Term?](“dead, victim, slain”) fromProto-Indo-European*wel-(“death in battle, killed in battle”) +*hlaup(“course, track”) from*hlaupan(“to run”). Compare the doubletgallop.

wallop (countable anduncountable,pluralwallops)

1. A heavyblow,punch.

   he gave him a mightywallop

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

   this guy's got somewallop

3. An emotionalimpact, psychological force.

   that film has some seriouswallop

4. Athrill, 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 ofwallop."

6. (archaic) A thick piece offat.
7. (UK,Scotland,dialect) A quick rolling movement; agallop.

• (beer):codswallop
• pack a wallop

wallop (third-person singular simple presentwallops,present participlewallopingorwallopping,simple past and past participlewallopedorwallopped)

1. (intransitive) Torush hastily.
2. (intransitive) To flounder,wallow.
3. Toboil 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) Tostrike heavily,thrash soundly.

   Tony gotwalloped round the face by Mike.

5. (transitive) Totrounce, beat by a wide margin.

   The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completelywallop 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 accoutrementswallop.

   • 1872, Joseph C. Hart,Miriam Coffin: Or, The Whale-fisherman, page208:

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

8. Toeat ordrink withgusto.
   • 1910, Hilaire Belloc,On Something - Volume 10, page69:

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

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

     A greasy spoon café was found, big brekkies ordered and soonwalloped 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 ofwrite toall operators.

wallop (third-person singular simple presentwallops,present participlewalloping,simple past and past participlewalloped)

1. (Internet) To send amessage to alloperators on anInternet Relay Chat server.

• “wallop” inWebster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.:G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing),→OCLC.