wallop

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: wal=lop

CIDE DICTIONARY

wallop, v. i. [Cf. OFlem. walop a gallop; of uncertain origin. Cf. Gallop.].

 To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.  [1913 Webster]

wallop, n. 

 A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.  [1913 Webster]

wallop, v. i. [Probably fr. AS. weallan to spring up, to boil or bubble. Well, n. & v. i.].

•  To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.  Brockett.  [1913 Webster]
•  To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]
•  To be slatternly.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]

wallop, v. t. 

•  To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.  [1913 Webster]
•  To wrap up temporarily.  [1913 Webster]
•  To throw or tumble over.  [1913 Webster]

wallop, n. 

•  A thick piece of fat.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]
•  A blow.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

wallop, v. & n. sl.
--v.tr. (walloped, walloping)
1 a thrash; beat. b hit hard.
2 (as walloping adj.) big; strapping; thumping (a walloping profit).
--n.
1 a heavy blow; a thump.
2 Brit. beer or any alcoholic drink.

Derivative

walloping n.

Etymology

earlier senses 'gallop', 'boil', f. ONF (walop n. f.) waloper, OF galoper: cf. GALLOP

THESAURUS

wallop

bang, bash, baste, bastinado, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belt, biff, birch, blast, blunder, bonk, boot, bop, buffet, bump, cane, careen, career, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout, club, clump, coldcock, collision, cowhide, crack, crash, cudgel, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dress down, drub, falter, fetch, fetch a blow, flagellate, flail, flap, flax, flog, flounce, flounder, fustigate, give a dressing-down, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, hide, hit, hit a clip, horsewhip, jab, jar, jolt, kick, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, knout, labor, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lather, lay on, leather, let have it, lick, lurch, maul, paddle, paste, patter, pelt, percussion, pistol-whip, pitch, pitch and plunge, plunge, plunk, poke, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, punch, rap, rawhide, reel, rock, roll, scourge, seethe, shellac, shock, slam, sledgehammer, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, spank, stagger, strap, strike, strike at, stripe, struggle, stumble, swat, sway, swing, swinge, swipe, switch, tan, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thump, thwack, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, trim, trounce, truncheon, tumble, wallow, welt, welter, whack, whale, wham, whip, whop, yerk

ROGET THESAURUS

wallop

Punishment

VB punish, chastise, chasten, castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice, cowhide, lambaste, visit upon, pay, pay out, serve out, do for, make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of, have a rod in pickle for, give it one, strike, deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite, slap, slap the face, smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet, thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor, lace, lace one's jacket, dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue, beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly, give a black eye, tar and feather, pelt, stone, lapidate, masthead, keelhaul, execute, bring to the block, bring to the gallows, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate, hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter, shoot, decimate, burn, break on the wheel, crucify, empale, impale, flay, lynch, electrocute, gas, send to the gas chamber, torture, put on, put to the rack, picket, banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize, rusticate, drum out, dismiss, disbar, disbench, strike off the roll, unfrock, post, suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment, be flogged, be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty, be hanged, come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes, be rightly served, be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning, face the firing squad.

Agitation

VB be agitated, shake, tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf, quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle, wriggle, wriggle like an eel, dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort, squirm, throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat, flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker, bustle, ferment, effervesce, foam, boil, boil over, bubble up, simmer, toss about, jump about, jump like a parched pea, shake like an aspen leaf, shake to its center, shake to its foundations, be the sport of the winds and waves, reel to and fro like a drunken man, move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard, agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt, jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.