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wallop

/wol-uhp/US // ˈwɒl əp //UK // (ˈwɒləp) //

撞墙,撞击,撞击声,墙头草

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to beat soundly; thrash.
    • : Informal. to strike with a vigorous blow; belt; sock: After two strikes, he walloped the ball out of the park.
    • : Informal. to defeat thoroughly, as in a game.
    • : Chiefly Scot. to flutter, wobble, or flop about.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Informal. to move violently and clumsily: The puppy walloped down the walk.
    • : to boil violently.
    • : Obsolete. to gallop.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a vigorous blow.
    • : the ability to deliver vigorous blows, as in boxing: That fist of his packs a wallop.
    • : Informal. the ability to effect a forceful impression; punch: That ad packs a wallop.a pleasurable thrill; kick: The joke gave them all a wallop.
    • : Informal. a violent, clumsy movement; lurch.
    • : Obsolete. a gallop.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbbeat, hit
Forms: walloping

Examples

  • The book then sustains a relentless focus on explaining and documenting the wallop packed by the simple and omnipresent error of noise — and what decision-makers can do about it.

  • Friends warned me about a kind of otherworldly wallop upon arrival, but nothing could prepare me for the feeling I had seeing it for the very first time.

  • In the 1930s, psychiatrists discovered that a massive wallop of seizure-inducing electricity could sometimes relieve psychiatric symptoms.

  • And because Whitehurst took his FBI oath seriously, he wallop-slapped crime lab protocols into the 21st Century.

  • Her fantastical accumulations of detritus and throwaway goods can seem to pack more whimsy than wallop.

  • It wasn't much, as cannons go, but it packed a much stronger wallop than the flintlocks and shotguns most men owned.

  • She married twice, first to Quentin Wallop, 10th Earl of Portsmouth, and then to the Oxford academic Fram Dinshaw.

  • He gave her permission later in the trial to slap/wallop/hit/punch/smack/bop him again and the result was fantastic.

  • I wonder if Bert's had anything to eat since he got the wallop on the coco?

  • For quite surely I saw Angus Jones fetch the jungle monarch but the one wallop with his oar.

  • Then came there by them a knight with a bended shield of azure, whose name was Epinogris, and he came toward them a great wallop.

  • And therewithal he groaned piteously, and rode a great wallop away-ward from them until he came under a wood's side.

  • That measly little tap of yours in the last round was certainly a soporific wallop.