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noun

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plural of wallop

as in collisions

a forceful coming together of two things felt the wallop of a car crashing into their front porch

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as in blows

a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument gave the ball a good wallop with the bat

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as in kicks

a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings she really got a wallop out of finding a rare first edition by her favorite author

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wallops

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verb

present tense third-person singular of wallop

as in licks

to strike repeatedly walloped the branches of the pear tree with a stick in an effort to knock down some fruit

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as in buries

to defeat by a large margin walloped their traditional rivals 20 to nothing

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as in slaps

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner arrested for walloping a police officer

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The job involves high stakes, and having a deficit of said employees fuels a number of near misses of airplane collisions, as close calls involving crashes happen on average multiple times a week per a 2023 New York Times investigation.

Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
Whether hues of green, red, blue and pink dance about in the sky is due to the altitude in which the collisions occur, as well as the composition and density of the atmosphere at the time.

Eric Lagatta, Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2024

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