wallop

Meaning

Noun

1. A heavy blow, punch.
2. A person's ability to throw such punches.
3. An emotional impact, psychological force.
4. A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
5. (slang) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.
6. A thick piece of fat.
7. A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

Verb

1. To rush hastily.
2. To flounder, wallow.
3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
4. To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
5. To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
6. To wrap up temporarily.
7. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
8. To eat or drink with gusto.

Verb

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Synonyms

strike

smack

hit

beat

whack

thrash

beat up

stub

thresh

whip

slug

knock down

knock

clout

wham

find

🔍

attain

whop

bang

catch

sock

punch

👊

belt

hammer

🔨

bash

run across

run up against

score

impact

encounter

imprint

lam

mar

mark

palpitate

pound

💷

print

punish

rebuke

retreat

scent

scold

ale

scramble

scuffle

shadow

shock

⚡

slam

slog

slot

smash

soak

spank

spoor

spot

swat

tan

throb

thump

thwack

tincture

torture

trace

track

trail

vanquish

vestige

whomp

scour

appal

applaud

assault

attack

👊

beer

🍺

belabour

biff

blemish

bop

break

castigate

clap

👏

clew

clobber

clump

coin

🪙

crash

cream

cuff

discipline

duel

fan

fight

fisticuff

flounder

fly

✈️

gallop

have intercourse

horrify

Hyphenated as

wal‧lop

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɒl.əp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: wallopen

Cognate with Old French: galoper

Cognate with French: galoper

In summary

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.