Adjective: walloping wó-lu-ping
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Very large
"a walloping loss";
- humongous [informal], banging [informal], thumping [informal], whopping [informal], humungous [informal]
- A sound defeat
"The underdog team received a walloping in the championship game";
- thrashing, debacle, drubbing [informal], slaughter, trouncing, whipping, pasting [informal], hammering [informal], débâcle, beatdown [N. Amer], smackdown [N. Amer, informal], licking [informal]
Usage: informal
- Hit hard
"The teacher wallopd the boy";
- sock [informal], bop [informal], whop [informal], whap [N. Amer, informal], bonk [informal], bash [informal], clonk [informal], boink [N. Amer, informal], whack [informal], wham [informal], lamp [UK, informal], clock [UK, informal], belt [informal]
- Defeat soundly and utterly
"We'll wallop them!"
Derived forms: wallopings
Type of: defeat, get the better of, hit, overcome
Encyclopedia: Wallop, John