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English

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Etymology 1

From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.

Noun

wallop (countable and uncountable, plural wallops)

  1. A heavy blow, punch.
    he gave him a mighty wallop
  2. A person's ability to throw such punches.
    this guy's got some wallop
  3. An emotional impact, psychological force.
    that film has some serious wallop
  4. A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
  5. (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.
    • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four:
      "You're a gent," said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. "Pint!" he added aggressively to the barman. "Pint of wallop."
  6. (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
  7. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
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Translations

Verb

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)

  1. (intransitive) To rush hastily.
  2. (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
  3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
    • 1579, Laurence Thomson, A wee note on Calvin's (wordy) sermons:
      Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte.
  4. (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
    Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.
  5. (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
    The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.
  6. (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
  7. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
    • 1822, James Hogg, Siege of Roxburgh:
      Saluting the far loin of his mare […] with an energy that made all his accoutrements wallop.
    • 1872, Joseph C. Hart, Miriam Coffin: Or, The Whale-fisherman, page 208:
      The second act commenced, and the old-fashioned sixpenny waves of Drury did their best, and wallopped about, under a canvas blanket representing the sea, and dashed against the rocks and tall cliffs of the scene to admiration.
  8. To eat or drink with gusto.
    • 1910, Hilaire Belloc, On Something - Volume 10, page 69:
      St. Peter will befriend me then, Because my name is Peter too; I know him for the best of men That ever wallopped barley brew.
    • 2010, William Routledge, Oh Yes, Oh Yes, We are the PPS:
      A greasy spoon café was found, big brekkies ordered and soon walloped down.
    • 2019, Mary S. Watts, The Tenants: An Episode of the '80s:
      "Huh! Touch o' green was a fig-leaf, I s'pose—hope so, anyhow!" said Mrs. Botlisch, and "wallopped" down another oyster.
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Etymology 2

Clipping of write to all operators.

Verb

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)

  1. (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.

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