verb · transitive · rare

wallop

wal·lop

wallop · wallops · walloped · walloping

ударять

schlagen, übertreffen, übertrumpfen

To rush hastilyTo rush hastily.

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UK/ˈwɒl.əp/US/ˈwɑ.ləp/

» That brand of tequila really packs a wallop.

Эта марка текилы хорошо ударяет в голову.

Meaning

9 senses

(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.
Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.
strike hard
(transitive)To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.
(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.

Examples

3 sentences

That brand of tequila really packs a wallop.
ruЭта марка текилы хорошо ударяет в голову. — odexed
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Spain wallops Netherlands.
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Netherlands wallop Spain.
ruНидерланды громят Испанию. — odexed
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Origin

From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern Fren

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.

Clipping of write to all operators.

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