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wallopping

wallopping is the present participle and gerund of wallop.

Meaning of wallop

Verb

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)

  1. (intransitive) To rush hastily.
  2. (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
  3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
    • Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte.1579, Laurence Thomson, A wee note on Calvin's (wordy) sermons
  4. (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
    • Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.
  5. (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
    • The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.
  6. (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.

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Questions about wallopping

What is wallopping the present participle and gerund of?
Wallopping is the present participle and gerund of wallop.

Words near wallopping in the dictionary

  1. walloper
  2. wallopers
  3. walloping
  4. wallopings
  5. wallopped
  6. wallopping
  7. wallops
  8. Wallops Island
  9. wallow
  10. Wallow Green
  11. wallow in the mire

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