walloper
Britishnoun
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a person or thing that wallops
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slang a policeman
Example Sentences
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To be fair, all his recent tracks have been rubbish but Mercy, an epic soul-rave walloper is the opposite of rubbish, so good luck with this one, B!
From The Guardian • May 4, 2018
Chief walloper Kevin "KP" Pietersen is ruled out through injury, so the onus is on Joe Root and Eoin Morgan to provide the middle-order aggression.
From The Guardian • May 31, 2013
Leathery, cigar-chewing Billy McMahon, 47, a dock walloper who loathed the gangster-ridden leadership of his International Longshoremen's Association, switched his membership last fall to the American Federation of Labor's new dock union.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has laid a veneer of American-style street smarts on the skills of the hamal, or dock walloper, who learned survival on the wharves of Turkish Constantinople.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the body flopped onto the pile, the whole wagonload of flies jumped into the air like lice from a walloper.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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