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wallop

/ˈwɒl.əp/

noun

Meaning

  • A heavy blow, punch.

  • A person's ability to throw such punches.

  • An emotional impact, psychological force.

  • A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.

  • Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.

  • A thick piece of fat.

  • A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

verb

Meaning

  • To rush hastily.

  • To flounder, wallow.

  • To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.

  • To strike heavily, thrash soundly.

  • To trounce, beat by a wide margin.

  • To wrap up temporarily.

  • To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.

  • To be slatternly.