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Wallop   /wˈɑləp/   Listen
Wallop

noun
1.
A forceful consequence; a strong effect.  Synonym: impact.  "The book packs a wallop"
2.
A severe blow.
verb
(past & past part. walloped; pres. part. walloping)
1.
Hit hard.  Synonyms: whack, wham, whop.
2.
Defeat soundly and utterly.



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"Wallop" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Irish descent. But in the second biggest police force in the world, wherein twenty per cent of the personnel wear names that betoken Jewish, Slavic or Latin forebears, tradition these times suffers many a body wallop. ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb

... nothing, and, according to others, completely alone. "What she said to him there is none who knows," wrote Alan Chartier, a short time after [in July, 1429], "but it is quite certain that he was all radiant with joy thereat as at a revelation from the Holy Spirit." M. Wallop, after a scrupulous sifting of evidence, has given the following exposition of this mysterious interview. "Sire de Boisy," he says, "who was in his youth one of the gentlemen of the bed-chamber on the most familiar terms with Charles ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume III. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... on this question, my gentle Britisher. If you should happen to hit Burchmore, I have no doubt he would wallop ...
— Up The Baltic - Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark • Oliver Optic

... trial came on at Guildhall, a crowd of those who loved and honoured Baxter filled the court. At his side stood Doctor William Bates, one of the most eminent of the Nonconformist divines. Two Whig barristers of great note, Pollexfen and Wallop, appeared for the defendant. Pollexfen had scarcely begun his address to the jury, when the Chief Justice broke forth: "Pollexfen, I know you well. I will set a mark on you. You are the patron ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... tent stake I picked up on the lot. I'll fetch him a wallop that'll make him see stars if I catch close enough sight ...
— The Circus Boys In Dixie Land • Edgar B. P. Darlington


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