Meanings
present singular third person wales on · participle present waling on · participle past waled on · past waled on
- alternativeslangAlternative form of whale on.
She tears into him, fists waling on him like paddle wheels.
1999, Linda M. Bullard, Shades of Justice, page 1312 more examples
"One of my coke babies had retinal damage and seizures and to me that is just as severe as somebody waling on a kid," she says.
1990 August 19, Jan Hoffman, “Pregnant, Addicted - and Guilty?”, in The New York Times MagazineI figured that if he was there, I would let him wale on me as a sort of punishment, wale on me just for a few seconds before I started my action and hit back.
1997, Gary Soto, Buried Onions, page 43
Origin
See wale (“mark with welts”).
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