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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 Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

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 MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller