walloping

adj, adv, noun — 6 senses

walloping

adj

1

Slang Whopping, large in size.

2

Slang Of exceptional, impressive quality.

walloping

adv

1

Used to emphasize the size or extent.

a walloping big lie

walloping

noun

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:

3

Broadly, Figuratively A thrashing, serious defeat.

Related terms: dock walloping, pot-walloping

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