Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To beat forcefully; thrash.
- intransitive verb To strike with a hard blow.
- intransitive verb To defeat thoroughly.
- intransitive verb To affect harshly or severely.
- intransitive verb To move in a heavy or clumsy manner.
- noun A hard or severe blow.
- noun A powerful force.
- noun A powerful effect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A quick motion with much agitation or effort; a gallop.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling of the liquor, accompanied with noise.
- To move quickly with great but somewhat clumsy effort; gallop. See
gallop . - noun A severe blow.
- To castigate; beat soundly; drub; thrash.
- To tumble over; dash down.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. & Scot. To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.
- noun Prov. Eng. & Scot. A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.
- noun A thick piece of fat.
- noun Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S. A blow.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S. To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To wrap up temporarily.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To throw or tumble over.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To be slatternly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Internet To write a
message to alloperators on anInternet Relay Chat server. - noun A heavy
blow ,punch . - noun A person's ability to throw such punches.
- noun An emotional
impact , psychological force. - noun A
thrill , emotionally excited reaction. - noun slang anything produced by a process that involves boiling;
Beer , tea,whitewash . - noun archaic A thick piece of
fat . - verb intransitive To
rush hastily - verb intransitive To flounder,
wallow - verb intransitive To
boil noisily - verb transitive To
strike heavily,thrash soundly. - verb transitive To
trounce , beat by wide.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb hit hard
- noun a severe blow
- noun a forceful consequence; a strong effect
- verb defeat soundly and utterly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Lidia theorizes that pasta alla puttanesca soared to popularity here in the 1970s because authentic Italian ingredients such as cured olives and cured capers were just becoming available, so the dish delivered what she calls a "wallop of flavor" that keeps people making it right up to today.
Rozanne Gold: Lidia's Italy in America Rozanne Gold 2011
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Lidia theorizes that pasta alla puttanesca soared to popularity here in the 1970s because authentic Italian ingredients such as cured olives and cured capers were just becoming available, so the dish delivered what she calls a "wallop of flavor" that keeps people making it right up to today.
Rozanne Gold: Lidia's Italy in America Rozanne Gold 2011
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Lidia theorizes that pasta alla puttanesca soared to popularity here in the 1970s because authentic Italian ingredients such as cured olives and cured capers were just becoming available, so the dish delivered what she calls a "wallop of flavor" that keeps people making it right up to today.
Rozanne Gold: Lidia's Italy in America Rozanne Gold 2011
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Lidia theorizes that pasta alla puttanesca soared to popularity here in the 1970s because authentic Italian ingredients such as cured olives and cured capers were just becoming available, so the dish delivered what she calls a "wallop of flavor" that keeps people making it right up to today.
Rozanne Gold: Lidia's Italy in America Rozanne Gold 2011
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Lidia theorizes that pasta alla puttanesca soared to popularity here in the 1970s because authentic Italian ingredients such as cured olives and cured capers were just becoming available, so the dish delivered what she calls a "wallop of flavor" that keeps people making it right up to today.
Rozanne Gold: Lidia's Italy in America Rozanne Gold 2011
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The eggs and cheese pack a protein wallop, while the brown rice adds whole grains.
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The eggs and cheese pack a protein wallop, while the brown rice adds whole grains.
Archive 2008-07-01 Laura 2008
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Johnny's "wallop" was quite enough; more than enough, as the slender one might learn to his sorrow.
Triple Spies 1918
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"Well," she said, "I'm afraid that Joe will 'wallop' you some day if you worry him about his food, for even a gentle dog will sometimes snap at any one who disturbs him at his meals; so you had better not try his patience too far."
Beautiful Joe Marshall Saunders 1904
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"Well," she said, "I'm afraid that Joe will 'wallop' you some day if you worry him about his food, for even a gentle dog will sometimes snap at any one who disturbs him at his meals; so you had better not try his patience too far."
brtom commented on the word wallop
He did come a wallop, by George. Must have cracked his skull on the cobblestones.
Joyce, Ulysses, 8
January 3, 2007
ofravens commented on the word wallop
Dark as anger,
Waves wallop, assaulting the stubborn hull.
from "Channel Crossing," Sylvia Plath
April 14, 2008