wallop
verb (used with object)
to beat soundly; thrash.
was walloping
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past progressiveof wallop.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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By Sunday and Monday, the system was walloping Southern California, dumping record-breaking rainfall, causing hundreds of mudslides and debris flows and forcing evacuations and water rescues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Elsewhere in the country — and earlier in the supply chain — a polar vortex was walloping Texas and Louisiana with ice storms and catastrophic power outages.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2021
I had tried mother's way, and all it had brought me was walloping, so now I would think for myself.
From The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
He was walloping around the mill, as usual, singing a crazy old lumberjack song about 'six brave Cana-jen byes,' who broke a lumber jam.
From Treasure Valley by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
