wallopverb [ T ]
uk/ˈwɒl.əp/us/ˈwɑː.ləp/informalto hit someone hard, especially with the flat part of the hand or with something held in the hand:
She walloped him across the back of the head.
to defeat someone easily, especially in sports:
"How did your tennis game go last night?" "Oh, I was walloped again."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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wallop
noun [ C ] ukus
My mother gave me such a wallop when she eventually found me.