walloping

wal·lop·ing

 (wŏl′ə-pĭng) Informal

adj.

1. Very large; huge: a walloping fish.

2. Very fine; impressive: a walloping success.

adv.

Used as an intensive: a walloping huge lie.

n.

A sound thrashing or defeat.

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walloping

(ˈwɒləpɪŋ)

n

a thrashing

adj

(intensifier): a walloping drop in sales.

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wal•lop•ing

(ˈwɒl ə pɪŋ)
Informal. n.

1. a sound beating or thrashing.

2. a thorough defeat.

adj.

3. very large; whopping.

4. very fine; impressive.

adv.

5. extremely; immensely.

[1350–1400]

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	walloping - a sound defeat       drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, whipping, slaughter, debacle defeat, licking - an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking"
Adj.	1.	walloping - (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss" banging, humongous, thumping, whopping colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"

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walloping

adjective

Informal. Of extraordinary size and power:

behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast.

Slang: whopping.

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Translations

enorme

walloping

[ˈwɒləpɪŋ]

A. N to give sb a walloping → dar una paliza a algn, zurrar a algn

B. ADJ → enorme, colosal

C. ADV a walloping great portion of ice-cream → una porción enorme de helado

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walloping

(inf)

n → Prügel pl (inf), → Abreibung f (inf); (= defeat) → Schlappe f (inf); to give somebody a walloping → jdm eine Tracht Prügel geben (inf); (= defeat) → jdn fertigmachen (inf); to get a walloping (= defeat) → eine Schlappe erleiden (inf)

adj (also walloping great) → riesig; price → gesalzen (inf), → saftig (inf); loss, defeat → gewaltig (inf); lie → faustdick (inf)

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walloping

[ˈwɒləpɪŋ] (fam)

1. n to give sb a walloping → suonarle a qn

2. adj (also walloping great) → enorme

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