Verb
I was so angry I felt like walloping him. walloped the branches of the pear tree with a stick in an effort to knock down some fruitNoun
felt the wallop of a car crashing into their front porch
gave the ball a good wallop with the bat
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Verb
Like other theater owners, it has been walloped by COVID-19 pandemic closures and a slow-to-recover studio release schedule.—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024 Colorado has been walloped by attrition, with Tristan da Silva, Cody Williams and KJ Simpson entering the NBA.—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for wallop
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Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English walopen to gallop, from Old French (Picard dialect) waloper
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