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单词 wallop
释义 wal·lop
I. \ˈwäləp also ˈwȯl-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English wallop, walop, from Old North French walop, from waloper to gallop
1. obsolete : gallop
2. obsolete : a bubbling motion and sound (as of a boiling substance)
 < let it only boil five or six wallops — George Hartman >
3. chiefly Britain : a noisy clumsy movement of the body
 < a sagging sack of flesh … he went in with a wallop — Adrian Bell >
4.
 a. : a powerful blow : punch II 2
  < got a hard wallop in the mouth — Baltimore (Md.) Sun >
  < the wallops from the wind made you feel tired — Greville Texidor >
 b. : something resembling a wallop especially in sudden jarring force
  < the sight of him hit my dried-up soul a wallopNew York Herald Tribune >
  < woodwinds … underlined by an explosive percussive wallop — Aaron Copland >
 c. : the ability (as of a boxer) to hit hard
  < has a terrific wallop in his left hand >
5.
 a. : effective physical, emotional, or psychological force or influence : impact
  < the wallop from an atomic bomb — New York Times >
  < full page advertising … carries a tremendous sales wallopPlaythings >
  < a movie with a dramatic wallop >
  < cannot pack the political wallop needed to swing Congress — New Republic >
 b. : a pleasant or exciting emotional response : thrill, kick
  < the kids … get a big wallop out of it — Robert Wilder >
6. Britain : beer I
 < was a great one for wallop and darts with the villagers in the local — Angus Wilson >
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English walopen, from Old North French waloper
intransitive verb
1. obsolete : gallop
2.
 a. : to move with reckless or disorganized haste : advance in a headlong rush
  < 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) : to move violently and often noisily about : wallow
   < sea-beasts who roared and rolled and walloped — Rudyard Kipling >
   < the very cows joined in … walloping, tail lashing — Virginia Woolf >
  (2) : to progress in a lurching ungainly manner : flounder
   < watched the old car wallop down the rutted lane >
3. : to boil with a loud bubbling noise
 < an immense pot … surging and walloping with some kind of savory stew — Nathaniel Hawthorne >
4. chiefly Scotland : to flap about : flutter, flop
 < keep his nether garments from walloping behind him — Peter McNeill >
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to thrash soundly (as with the hands or fists) : beat, pound, lambaste
  < always doing the wrong thing and being walloped for it — Ruth Park >
  < walloped the living daylights out of his attacker >
 b. : to gain a decisive victory over : beat by a wide margin : trounce
  < walloped him in the first match they played — Jack Barnaby >
  < walloped the champions 10 to 3 yesterday — Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican >
2.
 a. : to hit with great force : sock, slug
  < unfortunately … it was a gendarme I had walloped — H.A.Chippendale >
 b.
  (1) : to send (as a baseball) a long distance by a solid hit
   < walloped the ball against the facade of the third deck — New York Times >
  (2) : to get (as a run in baseball) by batting well
   < walloped 16 home runs last season >
3. : to scrub (kitchen utensils) clean
 < by night he walloped pots and pans in a hotel kitchen — R.M.Yoder >
4. : to move (as material for shipment) by hand
 < togged like the rest of the gang … he wallops sacks of sugar, coal, assorted cargo — Time >
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