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English

Etymology

From wallop +? -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

walloper (plural wallopers)

1. One who wallops.
2. (Ireland) A cudgel, a shillelagh.
3. (Scotland, slang, derogatory, vulgar) penis; (by extension) an idiot, a stupid person.
4. (Australia, slang, humorous) A policeman, a male police officer.
   • 1950, Frank Hardy, Power Without Glory,

     Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!

   • 1971, John O'Grady, Dealing with Cops, in Aussie Etiket, quoted in 1988, Aussie Humour, Macmillan, ?ISBN, page 200,

     Uniformed cops are generally known as ‘wallopers’, and cops in plain clothes are called ‘demons’. These latter, supposed to be disguised, are instantly recognisable.

   • 2006, Andrew Stafford, Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden, page 106,

     Understandably the wallopers were called, and they cleared everybody out.

Synonyms

• (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer

Derived terms

• dock walloper
• pot-walloper

Anagrams

• rope wall

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?l.?p/
• Rhymes: -?l?p
• Hyphenation: wal?lop

Etymology 1

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 *hlaupan? (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.

Noun

wallop (plural wallops)

1. A heavy blow, punch.

2. A person's ability to throw such punches.

3. An emotional impact, psychological force.

4. A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
5. (slang) anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four,

     "You're a gent," said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. "Pint!" he added aggressively to the barman. "Pint of wallop."

6. (archaic) A thick piece of fat.
7. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.

Derived terms

• (beer): codswallop

Translations

Verb

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping or wallopping, simple past and past participle walloped or wallopped)

1. (intransitive) To rush hastily.
2. (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.

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4. (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.

5. (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.

6. (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
7. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.

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8. To be slatternly.

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Derived terms

• walloper
• walloping

Etymology 2

Clipping of write to all operators.

Verb

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)

1. (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967