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Wallop

Definition: Wallop

Wallop

Noun

1. A severe blow.

Verb

1. Hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy".

2. Defeat soundly and utterly; "We'll wallop them!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wallop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1853. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Wallop

DomainDefinition

Literature

Wallop To thrash. Sir John Wallop, in the reign of Henry VIII., was sent to Normandy to make reprisals, because the French fleet had burnt Brighton. Sir John burnt twenty-one towns and villages, demolished several harbours, and "walloped" the foe to his heart's content. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms: Wallop

Synonyms: whack (v), wham (v), whop (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Wallop

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Agitation

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.

Punishment

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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Wallop

English words defined with "wallop": Walloped. (references)

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Modern Usage: Wallop

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm gonna wallop her behind and make it look like two Jap flags (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Movie/TV Titles

The Old Wallop (1927)

A Ghostly Wallop (1922)

The Wallop (1921)

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Commercial Usage: Wallop

DomainTitle

Books

  • Crash, bang, wallop! (reference)

  • Flash, bang, wallop! (reference)

  • Mrs. Wallop. (reference)

  • Wallop and Whizz and the Bottle of Fizz (Rhyming Stories) (reference)

  • We're the Noisy Dinosaurs!: (Crash, Bang, Wallop (Crash, Bang, Wallop) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Photo Album: Wallop

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

United Nations wallop punching Hitler and Mussolini from Tunisia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Wallop".

PlayCaption
Boxing; boxer; punch; strike; hit; striking; hitting; wallop; punching bag.
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Usage Frequency: Wallop

"Wallop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.90% of the time. "Wallop" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)54.9%2865,706
Lexical Verb (infinitive)15.69%8124,375
Noun (proper)15.69%8124,375
Lexical Verb (base form)13.73%7133,076
                    Total100.00%51N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Wallop

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "wallop": Flash-wallop.

Containing "wallop": crash-bang-wallop-bang-crash.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wallop

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

wallop

13

middle wallop

11

breaux wallop

2
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Modern Translation: Wallop

Language Translations for "wallop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zhdëp (belabor, belabour, drub, lambaste, larrup, trounce, whop), shpullë (clip, clout, slap, swipe), rrah (aim, assess, beat, beat up, castigate, cob, flail, flap, flicker, give a good hiding, give in, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, mill, Pat, thrash, thresh, trounce, whop), qëlloj fort (whack, whang), grusht (fist, handful, marrowbones, punch, whack), goditje e fortë (oner, slog, slug, smacker, snifter, staggerer, stinger, swat, swinger, swipe, thump), dorë e rëndë, birrë (ale, beer, malt, table-beer, tap). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لكمة (belt, chap, jab, knocking, punch, sock, swing, swipe, uppercut), ‏تقدم متعثرا (flounce, flounder, wallow), ‏تأثير عاطفي, ‏ضربة عنيفة (bang, bash, knock, knockdown, slam, smack, smash, swat, swipe, thwack, whack), ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, whip), ‏إندفع بتهور, ‏أز من شدة الغليان. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

умение за нанасяне на удар, удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, douse, hammer, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lash, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, zap), силен удар (biff, clip, lick, plunk, slog, slosh, smacker, smasher, sock, stinger, swipe, thump, welt, welter, whammy, whang, whop), силен ефект, клокоча (purl), кипя (boil, churn, effervesce, ferment, seethe, work), въргалям се (wallow, welter), вря (boil), налагам (enforce, enjoin, force, force upon, hammer, inculcate, indicate, inflict, levy, necessitate, predicate, punish, ramrod, superimpose, thrust, thrust on, towel), бъхтя (punish, ram, slog, slug), бира (ale, beer, malt liquor), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), подмятам се (wallow). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zbít (beat up, lick, thrash, trounce), spráskat (thresh), silná rána (slug), pecka (belt, biff, nodule, stone), šupa (belt, whack). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

سخت زدن(مثل مشت زن), شلاق زدن (Baste, Beat, Belabor, Belt, Cat, Horse, Horsewhip, Leather, Thong, Welt, Whip, Whiplash). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rökittää, päihittää (beat, clobber). (various references)

   

French

  

vlan, taloche, rossée, pet, gnon, fracas, flanquer une raclée, enfoncer, donner un grand coup, coup, cogner, boucan, beigne. (various references)

   

German

  

vertrimmen (belt), versohlen (belt, leather), versengen (scorch, sear, singe, thrash), verschlagen (artful, board up, bring, cunningly, devious, foxy, sly, slyly, strand, take away, thrash, tricky, underhand, wily), verprügeln (bash, baste, batter, batter about, beat up, bludgeon, knock about, knock around, lambaste, pelt, slog, strap, thrash, thwack, to baste, to lambaste, to slog, to trounce, trounce), verdreschen (bash about, beat up, flay, lam, larrup, thrash, thresh, to larrup), schlagen (bang, bash, bat, batter about, beat, belt, best, biff, birch, blast, break, Bury, capture, chime, clang, clout, defeat, fell, flap, flog, hack out, hit, kick, kill, knock, knock about, knock around, knock out, lap, lash, mint, outride, Pat, pound, pounding, pummel, punch, punching, rattle, rattling, sing, slap, slash, slat, smack, smite, spank, stricken, strike, swat, take, throb, thump, thwack, to bang, to bash, to batter, to blast, to knock (at), to rap, to slap, trim, wash, whip, whip up, whisk), schlag (apoplectic fit, ball, bang, bash, beat, belt, bent, blow, bolt, buffet, chime, chop, clap, clout, clump, cosh, coup, cuff, fit, helping, hit, kick, kind, knock, lash, Pat, pelt, percussion, poke, pulsation, punch, putt, seizure, shock, shot, slap, smack, smash, sock, sort, stinger, strike, stripe, stroke, stroke of apoplexy, swat, tack, tap, thud, thump, thwack, type), durchhauen (chop in two, cleave, split, thrash), dreschen (bandy, bash, flail, slam, slog, slosh, thrash, thrashing, thrashings, thresh, threshing), bier (ale, beer). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δυνατό χτύπημα (sock). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מכ" חזק" (chop, crack). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

súlyos ütés, nyakleves (clip, cuff, flap), elnáspángol (belabor, cudgel, Lam, larrup, to belabor, to belabour, to lace, to lay it on sy, to wallop, trounce). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menggelepar (flap, flutter, hover, twitch). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tonfo (dash, fall, flop, plonk, splash, thud, thump), suonare (chime, clink, perform, play, play through, ring, ring the bell, ring up, sound, strike, tinge, tintinnabulation), percuotere (beat, belt, cuff, hit, knock, maul, strike, thrash, thwack, trounce), cazzotto (punch), birra (ale, beer, bitter, lager). (various references)

   

Manx

  

bwoalley (assault, bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, belabour, buffet, chime, clap, club, flap, hammer, hit, knock, mint, percussion, play, pound, pulsate, punch, rhythm, ring, rise of penis, scramble, shock, slam, slap, strike, thrash, thresh, throb, toll). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allopway.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

surrar (bash, clapperclaw, drub, lash), sovar (larrup, thrash, thresh, whop), soco (blow, bop, fib, jab, lunge, paste, patten, punch, sabot, sock, socle, stroke, supporting base, thump), pancada violenta (smasher, sockdolager, swipe), murro violento, ferver (boil, burble, fret, gas, seethe, simmer), fazer barulho (burr, chatter, clatter, clutter, jangle, noise, racket, rampage, riot, roister, splutter, vandalize), espancar (bat, beat, belabor, belabour, clobber, lambaste, larrup, lathe, lather, lay into, maltreat, maul, paste, pommel, quilt, spank, swinge, thresh, thwack, trounce, welt, whang, whop). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

snopi (sheaf, sheave), loviturã straşnicã, bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, whip, worst). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

стукнуть тумак, удар (a smack in the eye /in the face/, apoplexy, bash, blow, box, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clap, cob, cut, dash, fit of apoplexy, hit, impact, impingement, jab, kick, knock, loft, lunge, percussion, pick, push, putt, shock, stabbings, stroke, swat, thrust, well-judged blow, welt), сильный удар (bang, bash, biff, clip, humming blow, lick, pelt, plunk, polt, slog, staggerer, swinger, swipe, thwack, whack), бить (baste, beat, beaten, belabour, buffet, catch, chastise, chime, club, drub, hit, kicked, kicking, knock, lambaste, larrup, lick, pound, pummel, run across, smash, strike, thrash, thwack, trounce, whop), поколотить (give a dusting, spat). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

udariti (bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, bump, clock, clout, conk, drive in, hack, hit, jog, knock, paw, percuss, poke, punch, ram, rap, shock, strike, stub, swipe, whack), udarac (beat, blow, bogey, bunt, dig, hit, impact, jolt, lash, lick, puff, punch, stroke, thwack, whack), snaga (brawn, clout, firmness, force, kick, leverage, might, potency, power, rankness, sap, sinew, stamina, strength, sturdiness, vigor, vigour), ključati (boil, bubble, seethe), kipeti (boil, seethe), istući (beat, belabour, drub, thrash, whop, work over). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

zurrar a (baste), zas (bang, smack, zap), velocidad (fastness, gear, rate, speed, speeding, velocity), rapidez (crier, fastness, intensification, quickness, rapidity, smartness, speed, speeding, suddenness, swiftness, velocity), golpear (bang, bat, beat, beat up on, beetle, bop, buffet, bump, clip, clobber, club, drive, flail, hit, jab, kick, knock, lash, punch, rap, rattle, slam, slap, slice, slog, smash, smite, strike, tee off, thrash, thump, whack), golpe (bang, bat, belt, blow, buffet, concussion, coup, crack, cut, hit, hook, jab, job, kick, knock, pelt, poke, prod, shock, shot, slam, smack, strike, stroke), golpazo (thump). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

klå upp (bash, beat up, belabor, belabour, cane, chaw up, clout, dress down, Lam, lambaste, lather, paste, paste up, strafe, whop), dänga (beat). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), sert vurmak (slog, slug, smash, whack), sert darbe, mahvetmek (bang up, bankrupt, barbarize, be ruin of smb., beat smb. hollow, bring to ruin, bugger, bugger up, canker, cook, corrupt, cut up, damn, destroy, devastate, dish, do for, exterminate, finish, kill, knock into a cocked hat, lay in ruins, lay low, make havoc of, play havoc with, pulverize, queer, ruin, sink, skunk, slaughter, smash, smash up, split, take smb. to the cleaners, undo, work havoc, wreck), heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, warmth, yeast), fokurdamak (boil, boil up, bubble, bubble up, spit), dayak (bashing, basting, beating, birching, caning, chastisement, corporal punishment, dressing down, drubbing, dusting, flogging, fustigation, hiding, lacing, licking, prop, rod, rubdown, sock, the works, thrashing, trimming, whacking, whaling, whipping), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, whale, whip, whop), bata çıka yürümek (flounder), çok kötü dövmek. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сильно ударити, сильний удар (bang, bash, lick, oner, pelt, plunk, slam, slog, spanker, staggerer, swat, swinger, swipe), сильний вплив, розгромити (kill, overwar, smash, whack), клекотіти, гуркіт (alarm, brattle, clatter, crash, detonation, din, drumming, growl, noise, peal, racquet, roar, thunder, thunder-clap), гупати (clatter, pound, tramp), віддубасити (anoint, beat), збудження (agitation, animation, effervescence, effervescency, exaltation, excitation, excitement, exciting, flush, intoxication, kindling, stimulation, taking, twitter, vivacity), з шумом (pop, slap bang), з гуркотом (noisily), плюхнутися (flop), пиво (ale, beer, tiff). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trận đòn đau rượu bia, cái vụt mạnh. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

waldio (beat), pwnio (beat, nudge, thump). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Wallop

Derivations

Words beginning with "wallop": walloped, walloper, wallopers, walloping, wallops. (additional references)

Words ending with "wallop": codswallop. (additional references)

Words containing "wallop": codswallops. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Wallop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: callop, swallop, wallo, wallok, wallon, wallopp, walo, waloe, walop, whallop, willo, willoq, wollop. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Wallop"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "wallop" (pronounced wÄ"lup)
4-Ä" l u pdollop, polyp.
3-l u pdevelop, envelop, fillip, gallop, Julep, redevelop, scallop, tulip.

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Anagrams: Wallop

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-l-l-o-p-w"

-1 letter: allow.

-2 letters: alow, awol, olla, opal, pall, pawl, plow, poll, wall.

-3 letters: all, alp, awl, lap, law, lop, low, owl, pal, paw, pol, pow, wap, wop.

-4 letters: al, aw, la, lo, op, ow, pa, wo.

 Words containing the letters "a-l-l-o-p-w"
 

+1 letter: wallops.

 

+2 letters: plowable, plowland, walloped, walloper.

 

+3 letters: alpenglow, plowlands, wallopers, walloping.

 

+4 letters: alpenglows, codswallop, pillowcase, playfellow.

 

+5 letters: codswallops, pillowcases, playfellows.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Sounds
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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