As Washington chewed over the Paul Ryan-Patty Murray budget deal, the Treasury Department announced a walloping drop in red ink.
And following that walloping success, QVC did it all again Wednesday night.
You wouldn't say so if you had seen him walloping me with a hard leather strap.
Then, for the love of Pete, wotcha doin' walloping off'n her like a sack of potatoes?
“It was some walloping, too,” said Old Hundred, with a reminiscent grin.
Just remember the walloping we gave you the last time you were here.
I ain't forgot that hop, skip and jump, walloping Australian tornado!
"Well, not since my dad gave me a walloping last," laughed the boy.
Such a walloping as you gave me I never had before in my life.
What a walloping I'll give him in the morning when it's light!
late 14c., "to gallop," possibly from Old North French *waloper (13c.), probably from Frankish *walalaupan "to run well" (cf. Old High German wela "well" and Old Low Franconian loupon "to run, leap"). The meaning "to thrash" (1820) and the noun meaning "heavy blow" (1823) may be separate developments, of imitative origin. Related: Walloped; walloping.
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Extreme; large: walloping amount of chili
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[1823+; fr British dialect, ''beat, thrash,'' apparently fr Old Norman French walop, ''gallop'']