Verb
I was so angry I felt like walloping him. walloped the branches of the pear tree with a stick in an effort to knock down some fruitNoun
felt the wallop of a car crashing into their front porch
gave the ball a good wallop with the bat
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Verb
The first real heat of summer will wallop Millwaukee this week.—Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 16 June 2024 By Wednesday afternoon, the flooding had grown so severe that authorities closed parts of southbound Interstate 95 in Broward near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International airport, an area that was walloped by intense rain later in the day.—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
Noun
Pickle some onions with the floral wallop of habaneros and the lift of salt mixed with lime zest and that there watermelon becomes a new creature.—Scott Hocker, theweek, 24 June 2024 But the two others are formidable warships: The missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov and the nuclear submarine Kazan can pack a wallop in terms of armament and are part of Russia’s attempts to catch up with the world’s modern navies.—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 12 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for wallop
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Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English walopen to gallop, from Old French (Picard dialect) waloper
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