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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Context Forty years ago in Azerbaijan in the south Caucuses region of western Asia, the laconic lethargy of Soviet bulk wine production was walloped by planned vineyard destruction.—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025 Severe thunderstorm warnings, flood watches Power outages Tens of thousands were without power Friday as storms continued to wallop the middle of the country.—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
Years of harum-scarum borrowing and spending combined with economic wallops from the Covid-19 pandemic, soaring interest rates and inflation helped drive up Kenya’s debt to $80 billion.—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 4 May 2025 The dissolve from a god’s eye view of a comforting, warm embrace in a bed between mother and daughter to the cold, sorrowful chill of Alex’s lonely body hits us like a wallop.—Courtney Howard, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wallop
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English walopen to gallop, from Old French (Picard dialect) waloper
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