Wallop

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈwÉ’l.É™p/

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.

Full definition of wallop

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.
• 1949, George Orwell, ,"You're a gent," said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. "Pint!" he added aggressively to the barman. "Pint of wallop."
6. (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
7. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

Derived terms

• (beer) codswallop

Verb

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

Derived terms

• walloper
• walloping

From the acronym: write to all operators

Verb

1. (Internet) To write a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.