wallop

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verb

wal·lop ˈwä-ləp

walloped; walloping; wallops

Synonyms of wallop next

intransitive verb

: to boil noisily

: to move with reckless or disorganized haste : advance in a headlong rush

: wallow, flounder

transitive verb

: to thrash soundly : lambaste

: to beat by a wide margin : trounce

: to hit with force : sock

walloper noun

wallop

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noun

: a powerful blow : punch

: something resembling a wallop especially in suddenness of force

: the ability (as of a boxer) to hit hard

: emotional, sensory, or psychological force or influence : impact

a novel that packs a wallop

: an exciting emotional response : thrill

British : beer

Examples of wallop in a Sentence

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 fruit Noun felt the wallop of a car crashing into their front porch gave the ball a good wallop with the bat

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

Hurricane Lee looks poised to wallop New England later this week even as the region still deals with the impact of days of wild weather that produced torrential rain, flooding, sinkholes, and a likely tornado. —

Michael Casey and Kathy McCormack, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023 Lewis, who walloped a curveball from Xzavion Curry into Target Field bullpens on Monday, has 10 career home runs and three of them have come against the Guardians. —

Joe Noga, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023 It just got walloped by rain from Tropical Storm Hilary. —

Time, 24 Aug. 2023 California got walloped by a tropical storm for the first time in 84 years. —

Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023 When the tech scene got walloped in March with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Hao, who spent her career leading and financing companies here and across the country, became the right person at the right time. —

Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023 But Hurricane Idalia walloped the village in the final stretch of scallop season and right before shrimping season. —

Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023 In the hours before Idalia slammed into Keaton Beach, officials in Tallahassee raised concerns that the city could get walloped with a force not seen in decades. —

Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2023 When Hurricane Harvey walloped Texas in 2017, officials evacuated several prisons while others struggled with days-long water outages and reports of knee-high flooding in some cells. —

Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023

Noun

After many delays and back-and-forths with director James Gunn, the franchise-closing third installment of the trilogy is finally here, and it’s said to pack an emotional wallop, according to CNN’s critic Brian Lowry. —

Dan Heching, CNN, 5 May 2023 To make an actor fill the frame, the camera must be placed much closer to the action, which can help create intimacy and produce an emotional wallop. —

Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2023 Jaime is the first member of his proud family to earn a college degree, but his joyous return to their home in working-class Edge Keys, across the water from the equally fictitious Palmera City, is marred by a wallop of bad news. —

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023 Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest beer maker, suffered a steep decline in revenue and profit in the U.S. over three months ending in June, demonstrating the financial wallop delivered by a consumer boycott of Bud Light in the wake of a product endorsement from a transgender influencer. —

Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2023 Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The biggest moment of the San Francisco Giants’ spring training so far, at least for many of the team’s minor-leaguers and player development folks, was Ismael Munguia’s wallop of a homer Friday at Scottsdale Stadium. —

Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2023 Among the storms that put a dent in the drought conditions was a Jan. 20 wallop that dropped roughly a half foot of snow on parts of northern Mass., while southern portions of the state saw only a dusting of flakes or just rain, forecasters said. —

Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023 Beneath its striking sheetmetal, there's a massive wallop of power, courtesy of three electric motors. —

David Beard, Car and Driver, 12 Feb. 2023 The Lucero singer says there’s a flicker of hope — along with wallops of humor, heartbreak, and empathy — in McCarthy’s books. —

Caine O'Rear, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023 See More

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