wallop

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Horror shorts need to pack a wallop, and if anything, Asian ghost stories are slow mood pieces.

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  1. transitive verb To beat soundly; thrash.
  2. transitive verb To strike with a hard blow.
  3. transitive verb To defeat thoroughly.
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  • Presently my sister had approached the big one rather nearer than he liked, and he suddenly wheeled round with a great "wallop": this was too much for my poor sister's nerves, and imagining she was going to be seized by the monster, she rushed from the shop, and along the street for a hundred yards, before I made up to her Vipers. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • "There's been an economic wallop, and people don't have as much money to spend." —  Market News
  • The show packed an incredible emotional wallop, and although Brian Dennehy was the big theater name on the marquee, film and television actress Carla Gugino delivered the knockout performance. —  JSOnline.com
  • Horror shorts need to pack a wallop, and if anything, Asian ghost stories are slow mood pieces. —  Final Girl
  • All fascinating no doubt, but the true Blount wallop -- from out of left field -- comes in the next paragraph: —  3quarksdaily
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wallop:   walloping ·  walloped ·  wallops
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  1. Middle English walopen, to gallop, from Old North French *waloper; see wel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English walopen, from Old French *waloper, galoper, boil, gallop, from Old Flemish walop, a gallop; with an element -op, perhaps orig. Old Flemish op, English up (cf. the English dial. variant wall-up), from Old Flemish wallen = Old Saxon wallan = Anglo-Saxon weallan, boil, spring forth as water does: see wall, well.Cf. gallop.
  2. from Middle English wallop, walop: see the verb.
  3. Origin obscure; perhaps a particular use of wallop. It is apparently confused with wale, whale. There is an absurd notion that the verb is derived from the name of Sir John Wallop, an ancestor of the Earl of Portsmouth, Knight of the Garter, who in Henry VIII.'s time distinguished himself by walloping the French.
  4. from wallop, v.
 

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