wallop. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

wallop

SYLLABICATION:	wal·lop
PRONUNCIATION:	wlp
VERB:	Inflected forms: wal·loped, wal·lop·ing, wal·lops
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1. Informal To beat soundly; thrash. 2. To strike with a hard blow. 3. To defeat thoroughly.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To move in a rolling, clumsy manner; waddle. 2. To boil noisily. Used of a liquid.
NOUN:	1. A hard or severe blow. 2a. The ability to strike a powerful blow: has a punch that delivers a wallop. b. The capacity to create a forceful effect: “Therein lies the novel's emotional wallop and moral message” (George F. Will).
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English walopen, to gallop, from Old North French ^*waloper. See wel-¹ in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	wallop·er —NOUN


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