walloping
noun
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adj
- Whopping, large in size.
- Of exceptional, impressive quality.
adv
- Used to emphasize the size or extent.
“a walloping big lie”
noun
- 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.”
- Verbal abuse.
“For forgetting to pick up the package again, my boss gave me a walloping.”
“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.”
- A thrashing, serious defeat.
verb
- present participle and gerund of wallop