wallopings

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.

   Synonyms:

   tongue lashing

3. (broadly, figuratively) A thrashing, serious defeat.

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