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walloping

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wallop \Wal"lop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Walloped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Walloping .] [Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to boil or bubble. [root]147. See Well , n. & v. i.] To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. [Prov. Eng.] ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ walloping steaks

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss" [syn: humongous , banging , thumping , whopping ] n. a sound defeat [syn: thrashing , debacle , drubbing , slaughter , trouncing , whipping ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 whopping, large in size 2 of exceptional, impressive quality n. 1 A series of wallops (blows.) 2 (context figuratively English) Verbal abuse. v (present participle of wallop English)

Usage examples of walloping.

In the dimming light, on the heaving, slithering decks, walloping and dancing berserkly, I had for a short eternity fore-lived what I lived now.

Like echo chambers and crimpy hair and walloping great fat chests and that.

But a stable boy caught a glimpse as he passed, and Gareth was suddenly bitting me, and backing me out of the stall, and walloping me with the belt rather mercilessly.

Great walloping space anomalies, naked singularities, Planck's-constant changes, and warps and woofs that have space-time ringing like a bell, or twisted and running crossways .

At least, he heard an awful noise, and went to his front door, and there was Vambrace walloping Pearlie with the stick.

The sounds are of a tiny, unenthusiastic audience applauding the death scene in some tragedy: it is the two masseurs walloping and potching at the flesh of their victims, men half-clad in sheets and stretched out across marble slabs.