noun, adjective
noun [usuallysing.] (informal)
1 a heavy defeat:
Our team got a real walloping last week.
2 an act of hitting sb very hard several times, often as a punishment:
You'll get a walloping if you don't behave.
adjective [onlybeforenoun] very big:
They had to pay a walloping great fine.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of walloping come from?
This entry for walloping is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does walloping appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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