• Walloper

    Origin

    From wallop + -er.

    Full definition of walloper

    Noun

    walloper

    (plural wallopers)
    1. One who wallops.
    2. (Ireland) A cudgel, a shillelagh.
    3. (Australia, slang, jocular) A policeman, a male police officer.
      • 1950, Frank Hardy, ,Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!
      • 1971, John O'Grady, Dealing with Cops, in Aussie Etiket, quoted in 1988, Aussie Humour, Macmillan, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 200,Uniformed cops are generally known as ‘wallopers’, and cops in plain clothes are called ‘demons’. These latter, supposed to be disguised, are instantly recognisable.
      • 2006, Andrew Stafford, Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden, page 106,Understandably the wallopers were called, and they cleared everybody out.
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