wallop

Pronunciation: /ˈwɒl.əp/

The English word “wallop” has 16 meanings listed here.

noun

A heavy blow, a punch.
A person's ability to throw such punches.
An emotional impact, a psychological force.
A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
A thick piece of fat.
A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

verb

To rush hastily.
To flounder, wallow.
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
To wrap up temporarily.
To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
To eat or drink with gusto.
To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.

Etymology

From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring,…

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