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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Rounds of potent thunderstorms are expected to wallop the central and eastern U.S. this weekend, unloading hail, high winds, flash floods and possible tornadoes over a vast swath of the country.—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 6 June 2025 To borrow a line written about then England captain Billy Wright struggling to cope with the genius of Ferenc Puskas when Hungary walloped the English at Wembley back in 1953, these players resembled firemen running to the wrong fire.—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Noun
And in addition to those periodic wallops, the Seaport suffers from a chronic sense of not being real.—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 May 2025 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 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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