walloping

comparative more walloping · superlative most walloping

1. slangWhopping, large in size.

   The fishermen came back with a walloping catch.

2. slangOf exceptional, impressive quality.

comparative more walloping · superlative most walloping

1. Used to emphasize the size or extent.

   a walloping big lie

plural wallopings

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. broadlyfigurativelyVerbal abuse.

   For forgetting to pick up the package again, my boss gave me a walloping.

   1 more example

   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

   Synonyms: tongue lashing

3. broadlyfigurativelyA thrashing, serious defeat.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of wallop