"wallop" Definition

Definitions for the word "wallop" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. i.
To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To be slatternly.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To wrap up temporarily.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To throw or tumble over.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A thick piece of fat.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
A blow.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. colloq.
v. (-p-) 1 thrash; beat. 2 (as walloping adj.) Huge. n. 1 heavy blow. 2 beer. [earlier senses ‘gallop’, ‘boil’, from french waloper from germanic: cf. *gallop]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
12. slang
to beat, or thrash. John Gough Nichols derives this word from an ancestor of the Earl of Portsmouth, one Sir John Wallop, Knight of the Garter, who in King Henry VIII.’s time distinguished himself by WALLOPING the French; but it is more probably connected with wheal, a livid swelling in the skin after a blow. _See_ POT-WALLOPER.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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