walloping
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wal·lop·ing
(wŏl′ə-pĭng) Informaladj.
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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| Noun | 1. |  walloping - a sound defeat |
| Adj. | 1. |  walloping - (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss"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
adjectiveInformal. 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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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
walloping
[ˈwɒləpɪŋ] (fam)1. n to give sb a walloping → suonarle a qn
2. adj (also walloping great) → enorme
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995