Definition of "wallop"

wallop¹

/ˈwɒl.əp/

noun
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.
  Quotations
  "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
6. (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
7. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
verb
third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping or wallopping, simple past and past participle walloped or wallopped
1. (intransitive) To rush hastily.
2. (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
  Quotations
  Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte.
  1579, Laurence Thomson, A wee note on Calvin's (wordy) sermons
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.
  Quotations
  Saluting the far loin of his mare […] with an energy that made all his accoutrements wallop.
  1822, James Hogg, Siege of Roxburgh
  The second act commenced, and the old-fashioned sixpenny waves of Drury did their best, and wallopped about, under a canvas blanket representing the sea, and dashed against the rocks and tall cliffs of the scene to admiration.
  1872, Joseph C. Hart, Miriam Coffin: Or, The Whale-fisherman, page 208
8. To eat or drink with gusto.
  Quotations
  St. Peter will befriend me then, Because my name is Peter too; I know him for the best of men That ever wallopped barley brew.
  1910, Hilaire Belloc, On Something - Volume 10, page 69
  A greasy spoon café was found, big brekkies ordered and soon walloped down.
  2010, William Routledge, Oh Yes, Oh Yes, We are the PPS
  "Huh! Touch o' green was a fig-leaf, I s'pose—hope so, anyhow!" said Mrs. Botlisch, and "wallopped" down another oyster.
  2019, Mary S. Watts, The Tenants: An Episode of the '80s

wallop²

/ˈwɒl.əp/

verb
third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped
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