Wallop Definition

wŏləp
walloped, wallops
verb
walloped, wallops
To move along in a rapid, reckless, awkward way.
Webster's New World
To beat soundly; thrash.
Webster's New World
To strike hard.
Webster's New World
To defeat overwhelmingly.
Webster's New World
To boil vigorously, with noisy bubbling.
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Antonyms:
noun
A heavy, clumsy movement of the body.
Webster's New World
A hard blow.
Webster's New World
The power to strike a hard blow.
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A powerful effect.
American Heritage
Effective force; vigor.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Wallop

Noun

Singular:
wallop
Plural:
wallops

Origin of Wallop

  • From Middle English wallopen (“gallop"), from Anglo-Norman, 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 *hlaupanÄ… (“to run, leap, spring"), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble"). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run") from *wal (“battlefield") from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "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.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English walopen to gallop from Old North French waloper wel-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the acronym: write [to] all operators

    From Wiktionary

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