单词 | wallop |
释义 | wal·lop I. 1. obsolete 2. obsolete < let it only boil five or six wallops — George Hartman > 3. chiefly Britain < a sagging sack of flesh … he went in with a wallop — Adrian Bell > 4. a. < got a hard wallop in the mouth — Baltimore (Md.) Sun > < the wallops from the wind made you feel tired — Greville Texidor > b. < the sight of him hit my dried-up soul a wallop — New York Herald Tribune > < woodwinds … underlined by an explosive percussive wallop — Aaron Copland > c. < has a terrific wallop in his left hand > 5. a. < the wallop from an atomic bomb — New York Times > < full page advertising … carries a tremendous sales wallop — Playthings > < a movie with a dramatic wallop > < cannot pack the political wallop needed to swing Congress — New Republic > b. < the kids … get a big wallop out of it — Robert Wilder > 6. Britain < was a great one for wallop and darts with the villagers in the local — Angus Wilson > II. intransitive verb 1. obsolete 2. a. < a fat spaniel dog … walloped along the deck — D.C.Russell > < ships … were walloping across the Atlantic freighted with more cigars — Aldous Huxley > b. (1) < sea-beasts who roared and rolled and walloped — Rudyard Kipling > < the very cows joined in … walloping, tail lashing — Virginia Woolf > (2) < watched the old car wallop down the rutted lane > 3. < an immense pot … surging and walloping with some kind of savory stew — Nathaniel Hawthorne > 4. chiefly Scotland < keep his nether garments from walloping behind him — Peter McNeill > transitive verb 1. a. < always doing the wrong thing and being walloped for it — Ruth Park > < walloped the living daylights out of his attacker > b. < walloped him in the first match they played — Jack Barnaby > < walloped the champions 10 to 3 yesterday — Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican > 2. a. < unfortunately … it was a gendarme I had walloped — H.A.Chippendale > b. (1) < walloped the ball against the facade of the third deck — New York Times > (2) < walloped 16 home runs last season > 3. < by night he walloped pots and pans in a hotel kitchen — R.M.Yoder > 4. < togged like the rest of the gang … he wallops sacks of sugar, coal, assorted cargo — Time > |
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