wallop
verb/ˈwɒləp/
/ˈwɑːləp/
(informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they wallop | /ˈwɒləp/ /ˈwɑːləp/ |
| he / she / it wallops | /ˈwɒləps/ /ˈwɑːləps/ |
| past simple walloped | /ˈwɒləpt/ /ˈwɑːləpt/ |
| past participle walloped | /ˈwɒləpt/ /ˈwɑːləpt/ |
| -ing form walloping | /ˈwɒləpɪŋ/ /ˈwɑːləpɪŋ/ |
- wallop somebody/something to hit somebody/something very hard synonym thump
- My father used to wallop me if I told lies.
- wallop somebody/something to defeat somebody completely in a contest, match, etc. synonym thrash
- We walloped them 6–0.
Word OriginMiddle English (as a noun denoting a horse's gallop): from Old Northern French walop (noun), waloper (verb), perhaps from a Germanic phrase meaning ‘run well’, from the bases of the adverb well and leap. Compare with gallop. From ‘gallop’ the senses ‘bubbling noise of a boiling liquid’ and then ‘sound of a clumsy movement’ arose, leading to the current senses.
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