Meanings
nounpot-walloper (plural pot-wallopers)
plural pot-wallopers
- historicalA potwaller.First known use 18th c.
In the dozen “pot walloper” boroughs, inhabitant households not on poor relief could vote.
1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 33
Origin
Alteration of potwaller, after wallop.
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