wallop — ODE · Shobdo

wallop /ˈwɒləp

/ informal

▸ verb

( wallops, walloping, walloped)

[with object] strike or hit very hard:

they walloped the back of his head with a stick

they were tired of getting walloped with income taxes figurative.

▪ heavily defeat (an opponent):

we were walloped by Milan.

▸ noun

1 a heavy blow or punch:

I gave it a wallop with my boot.

▪ [in singular] mainly North American English a powerful effect:

the script packs a wallop.

2 [mass noun] British English alcoholic drink, especially beer:

an endless supply of free wallop.

– ORIGIN Middle English (as a noun denoting a horse's gallop): from Old Northern French walop (noun), waloper (verb), perhaps from a Germanic phrase meaning ‘run well’, from the bases of well1 and leap. Compare with gallop. From ‘gallop’ the senses ‘bubbling noise of a boiling liquid’ and then ‘sound of a clumsy movement’ arose, leading to the current senses.