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walloping

adjective more walloping · most walloping

  1. slang Whopping, large in size. The fishermen came back with a walloping catch.
  2. slang Of exceptional, impressive quality.

adverb more walloping · most walloping

  1. Used to emphasize the size or extent. a walloping big lie

noun wallopings

  1. A series of wallops or blows; a beating. And your father really believes that you're a decorous, well-trained young business man, and whenever you don't live up to that standard you get on his nerves and he thinks you need a walloping.
  2. broadly, figuratively Verbal abuse. For forgetting to pick up the package again, my boss gave me a walloping.

    Similar: tongue lashing

  3. broadly, figuratively A thrashing, serious defeat.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of wallop

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@misc{walloping_2026,
  title = {walloping},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/walloping},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}