Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Wallop"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wallop \Wal"lop\, v. i. [Cf. OFlem. walop a gallop; of uncertain
origin. Cf. {Gallop}.]
To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop. [Prov.
Eng. & Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wallop \Wal"lop\, n.
A quick, rolling movement; a gallop. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wallop \Wal"lop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Walloped}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Walloping}.] [Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to
boil or bubble. [root]147. See {Well}, n. & v. i.]
1. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling,
with noise. [Prov. Eng.] --Brockett.

2. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov.
Eng.] --Halliwell.

3. To be slatternly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wallop \Wal"lop\, v. t.
1. To beat soundly; to flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng., Scot., &
Colloq. U. S.]

2. To wrap up temporarily. [Prov. Eng.]

3. To throw or tumble over. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wallop \Wal"lop\, n.
1. A thick piece of fat. --Halliwell.

2. A blow. [Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S.]

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

wallop
n : a severe blow
v 1: hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: {whack}, {wham},
{whop}]
2: defeat soundly and utterly; "We'll wallop them!"


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