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walloping

walloping adjective: whopping, large in size. Also the present participle and gerund of wallop.

Adjective

walloping (comparative more walloping, superlative most walloping)

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

Adverb

walloping (comparative more walloping, superlative most walloping)

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

Noun

walloping (plural 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.1914, Booth Tarkington, Penrod, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Verbal abuse.
    • For forgetting to pick up the package again, my boss gave me a walloping.
    • But it might better be applied to Trump’s social media spat with Elon Musk. It’s hard to think of two pueri aeterni who are more deserving of a verbal walloping.2025 June 7, Maureen Dowd, “Clash of the Bilious Billionaires”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    tongue lashing
  3. (broadly, figuratively) A thrashing, serious defeat.

Also used as

walloping is also the present participle and gerund of wallop.

Synonyms of walloping

Forms of walloping

Adjective
comparativemore walloping
superlativemost walloping
Adverb
comparativemore walloping
superlativemost walloping
Noun
pluralwallopings

Questions about walloping

What does walloping mean?
Walloping means whopping, large in size.
What part of speech is walloping?
Walloping can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.

Words near walloping in the dictionary

  1. Walloons
  2. wallop
  3. walloped
  4. walloper
  5. wallopers
  6. walloping
  7. wallopings
  8. wallopped
  9. wallopping
  10. wallops
  11. Wallops Island

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