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   wallop

   /ˈwɒləp/

   verb

   • 1. strike or hit very hard: "they walloped the back of his head with a stick"
   • ▪ heavily defeat (an opponent): "we were walloped by Milan"

   noun

   • 1. a heavy blow or punch: "I gave it a wallop with my boot"
   • ▪ a powerful effect: North American "the script packs a wallop"
   • 2. alcoholic drink, especially beer: British "an endless supply of free wallop"

   Word Origin Middle English (as a noun denoting a horse's gallop): from Old Northern French walop (noun), waloper (verb), perhaps from a Germanic phrase meaning ‘run well’, from the bases of well1 and leap. Compare with gallop. From ‘gallop’ the senses ‘bubbling noise of a boiling liquid’ and then ‘sound of a clumsy movement’ arose, leading to the current senses.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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     4

   • A

     1

   • L

     1

   • L

     1

   • O

     1

   • P

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