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wale on en · VERB

Etymology

See wale (“mark with welts”).

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, slang) Alternative form of whale on.
   alt of whale on
   • "One of my coke babies had retinal damage and seizures and to me that is just as severe as somebody waling on a kid," she says. 1990 August 19, Jan Hoffman, “Pregnant, Addicted - and Guilty?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
   • She tears into him, fists waling on him like paddle wheels. 1999, Linda M. Bullard, Shades of Justice, page 131:
   • I figured that if he was there, I would let him wale on me as a sort of punishment, wale on me just for a few seconds before I started my action and hit back. 1997, Gary Soto, Buried Onions, page 43:

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