name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
wallop
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɒl.əp/
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US: /ˈwɑ.ləp/
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CMU ARPABET: W AA1 L AH0 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A heavy blow, a punch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- he gave him a mighty wallop
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noun
Meaning 3
A person's ability to throw such punches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- this guy's got some wallop
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noun
Meaning 4
An emotional impact, a psychological force.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- that film has some serious wallop
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noun
Meaning 5
A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A thick piece of fat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 9
To rush hastily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 10
To flounder, wallow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 11
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
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verb
Meaning 12
To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.
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verb
Meaning 13
To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.
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verb
Meaning 14
To wrap up temporarily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 15
To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
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verb
Meaning 16
To eat or drink with gusto.
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verb
Meaning 17
To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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noun
Meaning 18
a severe blow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: blow
noun
Meaning 19
a forceful consequence; a strong effect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the book had an important impact on my thinking
- the book packs a wallop
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Synonyms: impact
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot
verb
Meaning 20
defeat soundly and utterly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- We'll wallop them!
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Broader terms: get the better of, overcome, defeat
verb
Meaning 21
hit hard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The teacher whacked the boy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: whack, wham, whop
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hit
History
Etymology
From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.
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Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: си́лен у́дар (sílen údar) — a heavy blow, punch
- Czech: úder — a heavy blow, punch
- Czech: rána — a heavy blow, punch
- Czech: pecka — a heavy blow, punch
- Dutch: knal — a heavy blow, punch
- French: un grand coup — a heavy blow, punch
- French: un gnon — a heavy blow, punch
- Galician: zoupada — a heavy blow, punch
- German: harter Schlag — a heavy blow, punch
- Hungarian: nyakleves — a heavy blow, punch
- Japanese: パンチ (panchi) — a heavy blow, punch
- Norman: tourné-oualipe — a heavy blow, punch
- Norman: oualipe — a heavy blow, punch
- Russian: си́льный уда́р (sílʹnyj udár) — a heavy blow, punch
- Serbo-Croatian: у̀дарац — a heavy blow, punch
- Serbo-Croatian: ùdarac — a heavy blow, punch
- Spanish: zurra — a heavy blow, punch
- Spanish: galletazo — a heavy blow, punch
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