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walloper en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From wallop + -er.

Meanings

  1. One who wallops.
  2. (Ireland) A cudgel, a shillelagh.
  3. (Scotland, derogatory, slang, vulgar) The penis.
  4. (Scotland, broadly, derogatory, slang, vulgar) An idiot; a stupid person.
  5. (Australia) A police officer.
    • Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way! 1950, Frank Hardy, Power Without Glory:
    • Two days later we were picked up by the wallopers on Clucas' information. 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 84:
    • Understandably the wallopers were called, and they cleared everybody out. 2006, Andrew Stafford, Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden, page 106:
  6. (slang) Something big; a whopper.
    • I'd had some wonderful fishing, but I hadn't landed a real walloper. 1969, Field & Stream, volume 74, number 1, page 138:

Forms

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Deriveds

pot-walloper · dock walloper

Synonyms

police officer (police officer)