wallop
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
wallop
n 1: a forceful consequence; a strong effect; "the book had an
important impact on my thinking"; "the book packs a wallop"
[syn: {impact}, {wallop}]
2: a severe blow
v 1: hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: {whack},
{wham}, {whop}, {wallop}]
2: defeat soundly and utterly; "We'll wallop them!"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
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1. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling,
with noise. [Prov. Eng.] --Brockett.
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2. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. [Prov.
Eng.] --Halliwell.
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3. To be slatternly. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
153 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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