wallop
IPA: wˈɑɫʌp
noun
- 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.
- (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- A surname.
verb
- (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 eat or drink with gusto.
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
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Examples of "wallop" in Sentences
- Walter Destine also known as Wallop.
- A little one, can pack a lot of wallop.
- But total experience packs a considerable wallop.
- Forty pints of wallop a day will keep away the quacks.
- And as I felt the wallop and realized what happened ...
- Photonic pressure, close to the sun, can pack a heck of wallop.
- A good wallop with some form of sealife would seem to be in order...
- Ketchop is huge, and packs a mighty wallop for so early in the game.
- If you wallop you are a usually a teachers pet or starved for attention.
- There have been suggestions, Wallop, that women who miscarry do so because of some action of theirs.