# wallop
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwɒl.əp/
* (US) IPA: /ˈwɑ.ləp/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒləp
* Hyphenation: wal‧lop

### 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)
* A heavy blow, punch.
    he gave him a mighty wallop
* A person's ability to throw such punches.
    this guy's got some wallop
* An emotional impact, psychological force.
    that film has some serious wallop
* A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
* (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."
* (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
* (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

##### Derived terms

* (beer): codswallop
* pack a wallop

##### Translations
#### Verb

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping or wallopping, simple past and past participle walloped or wallopped)
* (intransitive) To rush hastily.
* (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
* 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.
* (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
    Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.
* (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.
* (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
* 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.
* 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.

##### Derived terms

* walloper
* walloping

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

### References

* Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967