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WALLOPING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sound defeat
Synonyms:
debacle; drubbing; slaughter; thrashing; trouncing; walloping; whipping
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("walloping" is a kind of...):
defeat; licking (an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest)
Derivation:
wallop (defeat soundly and utterly)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used informally) very large
Example:
a thumping loss
Synonyms:
banging; humongous; thumping; walloping; whopping
Classified under:
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb wallop
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