walloping

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adjective

wal·​lop·​ing ˈwä-lə-piŋ 

1

: large, whopping

2

: exceptionally fine or impressive : smashing

walloping

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present participle of wallop entry 1

Synonyms of walloping

Adjective

• colossal
• huge
• gigantic
• massive
• giant
• tremendous
• vast
• enormous
• mammoth
• bumper
• monumental
• immense
• astronomical
• titanic
• monster
• mighty
• mountainous
• sizable
• monstrous
• grand

Examples of walloping in a Sentence

Adjective

he needed help to mount such a walloping horse

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Early in the first period, minutes before his career ended and his life forever changed, Normand Leveille took a walloping check along the sidewall at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022

Yet even for that song, after an undoubtedly exhausting hour and 40 minutes, Beavis pushed himself to the breaking point, extending the climax with not one, not five, but 13 walloping, finale-worthy slams. — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2022

Los Angeles — Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine. — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2022

The result is a gathering of compact objects that pack a walloping collective punch. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2022

What makes Coco so emotionally walloping, though—and what qualifies it as a perfect Thanksgiving film—is the film’s quiet reminders of the joys and annoyances of being part of a generations-spanning family. — WIRED, 20 Nov. 2018

If every decision had been for real money, the oldest adults would have walked away with a walloping 39 percent less cash than young adults. — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2013

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1823, in the meaning defined at sense 1