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walloping en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (slang) Whopping, large in size.
   • The fishermen came back with a walloping catch.
2. (slang) Of exceptional, impressive quality.

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walloping en · ADV

Meanings

1. Used to emphasize the size or extent.
   • a walloping big lie

Forms

walloping en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A series of wallops or blows; a beating.
   • And your father really believes that you're a decorous, well-trained young business man, and whenever you don't live up to that standard you get on his nerves and he thinks you need a walloping. 1914, Booth Tarkington, Penrod, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:
2. (broadly, figuratively) Verbal abuse.
   • For forgetting to pick up the package again, my boss gave me a walloping.
   • But it might better be applied to Trump’s social media spat with Elon Musk. It’s hard to think of two pueri aeterni who are more deserving of a verbal walloping. 2025 June 7, Maureen Dowd, “Clash of the Bilious Billionaires”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
3. (broadly, figuratively) A thrashing, serious defeat.

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Relateds

pot-walloping · dock walloping

Synonyms

tongue lashing

walloping en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of wallop
   form of wallop