What is the meaning of WALLOP. Phrases containing WALLOP
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having a strong impact, powerful, strong
n nonsense. The etymology of this antiquated but superb word leads us to an English gentleman named Hiram Codd, who in 1872 came up with the idea of putting a marble and a small rubber ring just inside the necks of beer bottles in order to keep fizzy beer fizzy (“wallop” being Old English for beer). The idea was that the pressure of the fizz would push the marble against the ring, thereby sealing the bottle. Unfortunately, the thing wasn’t nearly as natty as he’d hoped and “Codd’s wallop” slid into the language first as a disparaging comment about flat beer and eventually as a general term of abuse.
Huge multilayered sweets. Well huge for the mouth of a small child anyway. These changed colour with each layer encouraging the kids to be constantly removing them from their mouths - with filthy hands of course - just so they could see how far they've got. How we didn't get dysentry repeatedly is anyones guess! (ed: not to mention constant wallopings from our mothers for drooling over our clothes! By the way, who remembers Jawbreakers?)
Walloper is Australian slang for a policeman.
large quantity; strength; to punch
Policemen in uniform.
Wallop is slang for strong alcoholic drink. Wallop is British slang for beer.
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n.
A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.
v. i.
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
v. i.
To be slatternly.
n.
A thick piece of fat.
v. i.
To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
v. t.
To wrap up temporarily.
n.
A blow.
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A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.
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n.
One who cleans pots; a scullion.
v. t.
To throw or tumble over.
v. i.
To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.
v. t.
To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
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