wallopingadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈwɒl.ə.pɪŋ/us/ˈwɑː.lə.pɪŋ/informal humorous very big or great:
He cut me a walloping (great) slice of cake.
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Enormous
- a whale of a idiom
- almighty
- astronomical
- astronomically
- behemoth
- ginormous
- huge
- humungous
- immeasurable
- immense
- mountainous
- oversize
- overwhelming
- precipitous
- prodigious
- sth knows no bounds idiom
- stratospheric
- thumping
- whopping
- yawning
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wallopingnoun [ S ]
uk/ˈwɒl.ə.pɪŋ/us/ˈwɑː.lə.pɪŋ/informalan act of punishing someone by hitting them hard:
I got such a walloping from my father when he came home.
an occasion when someone is badly defeated in a competition:
We gave the other team a real walloping.
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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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