Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to make violent, noisy movements, to move clumsily or convulsively, to flounder.

c.1521		J. Heywood Witty and Witless in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 209: Amble he, trot he, go he a foot pace, / Wallop he, gallop he, rack he in trace.
1768		A. Ross ‘To the Begging We Will Go’ Helenore in Wattie Scot. Works (1938) 152: Then will I wallop out a dance, / Or tell some merry tale.
1808		C. Macklin Man of the World II i: We aw danced, and wrangled, and flattered and slandered, and gambled, and cheated, and mingled, and jumbled — and wolloped together.
1816		W. Scott Antiquary (1855) II 181: She wallopped away with all the grace of triumph.
1833		M. Scott Tom Cringle’s Log (1834) 273: The dog began floundering and jumping about, and walloping amongst the people.
1840		T. Haliburton Letter-bag of the Great Western (1873) 9: How this glorious steamer wallops and gallops, and flounders along! She goes it like mad.
1848		Dundee, Perth & Cupar Advertiser 22 Dec. 4/5: His Coats have not been walloping for years at the door.
1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 258/2: Wallop down (Com. Lond.). To fall with a crash.
1936		(con. 1830s–60s) ‘Miles Franklin’ All That Swagger 115: They charged with a mad bellow to within a breath of a finger, then swerved and walloped up to the high fence.
1948		R.L. Bellem ‘Death Ends the Scene’ Hollywood Detective May 🌐 Behind me, the motorcycle hero walloped around the corner and evidently miscalculated the maneuver.
1979		J. Morrow Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 22: He wallops in here slabberin’ about ‘Meaningful Dialogues’ an’ ‘Power Bases’ an’ things.
1990		R. Doyle Snapper 20: They heard him walloping the stairs as he ran up to the boys’ room.

2. (also wallup, whollop, wollop) to beat, to thrash, to hit hard.

1812		(con. ref. to 1810) Edin. Annual Register for 1810 20 Oct. 206/1: The three women walloped witness with poker, shovel, and greasy towel.
1822		‘Life in London’ in C. Hindley James Catnach (1878) 127: To bang and wallop the Charlies / And pommil them in the dark.
1824		Annals of Sporting 1 Jan. 53: The battles fought during our last month [...] may afford amusement more form the wallupping each man has given the otherm, than instruction, as to defending the points termed vital.
1833		‘Stray Donkey’ Lummy Chaunter 75: No, no, no, I shall wallop him no more.
1838		R. Nicholson Cockney Adventures 75: ‘Vell,’ says he, ‘if I’ve been nailed, I’ll vallop the coves as did it.’.
1843		T. Haliburton Sam Slick in England II 30: I [...] grabs right hold of her tail, and yelled and screamed like mad, and walloped away at her like anything.
1846		Bell’s Life in Sydney 19 Sept. 3/1: Kate [...] declared that [...] if he’d only promise not to wollop her she’d return to connubial bliss.
1855		W. Phillips Wild Tribes of London 50: When the fit took him he’d wallop into me like mad.
1861		(con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor III 104/2: He’d [...] take off his apron and wallop me with it all the way home.
1861		R.H. Newell Orpheus C. Kerr I 75: Some kind friend would take the job of walloping my offspring.
c.1868		‘Dizzy’s Lament’ in C. Hindley Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 105: If like Jack Heenan I could fight / I’d wollop both him and Johnny Bright.
1874		J. Greenwood Wilds of London (1881) 144: His father was a ‘drunken cove, as walloped her.’.
1880		Ouachita Teleg. (Monroe, LA) 17 Sept. 1/6: I bedam if I can’t just whollip the pea-green stuffin’ out o’ the gum-dashed galoot.
1887		Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Oct. 6/4: A well-known jockey, brought up at Melbourne for damaging his wife with his hands and feet, bitterly resented the offensive interference of the police. ‘It was, after all, only a family affair,’ he remarked. Every man has a right to wallup his own nigger.
1887		G. Devol Forty Years a Gambler 254: I was congratulated on all sides for having walloped the fellow.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 93: Wallop, to beat or thrash.
1896		Ade Artie (1963) 43: You’ve got to wallop one o’ them people to make ’em understand.
1901		Marvel XV:380 Feb. 15: Our respected head walloped the seat of this trousers so much [...] that he bears the marks to this day.
1906		J.W. Carr ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in DN III:ii 164: whollop, v. To whip. ‘He got wholloped till he didn’t know where he was at.’.
1907		L. Esson ‘The Sacred Place’ in Lone Hand May 51: ‘The people about think I wallop you, and you know that’s a — lie’.
1914		E. Pugh Cockney At Home 85: If you’re goin’ to be funny [...] I’m afraid I’ll ’ave to wollop you.
1915		Truth (Brisbane) 25 July 3/4: ‘I'm [...] in the orspltal with a wounded wing just now; but, lumme, it will be good enough to wallop soft meat like you’.
1917		T.W.H. Crosland ‘Recipe’ Coll. Poems 201: This is the learning / Unto which we come: / Properly Walloped / Is for ever dumb.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 142: sophist wallops haughty helen square on proboscis.
1928		V. Delmar Bad Girl 158: If he ever caught her doing it, he’d have to wallop her.
1930		J. Lait Put on the Spot 74: When he got sore he walloped me pretty.
1939		J. Campbell Babe is Wise 311: Mrs. Mac ‘toddled off home with “his nibs” to wollop the kids for whatever they’d gone an done during the afternoon.’.
1949		P. Pringle Boy’s Book of Cricket 105: Walloped it when it deserved to be walloped.
1957		G. Kersh Fowlers End (2001) 283: I was very much in the wrong to wallop hell out of you like I did just now; because I actually stole her away from you.
1963		K. Waterhouse Jubb (1966) 60: She had walloped Charles all the way up the stairs with her handbag.
1975		L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 301: Jo-Jo (who can hit the bottle like Willie Mays can wallop the horeshide).
1988		R. Doyle Commitments 29: Derek’s fingers were raw. He liked to wallop the strings.
1999		Guardian Rev. 27 Aug. 15: The Loaded era teaches us to wallop them on the back in an ironic, knowing manner.
2018		R. O’Neill ‘Ocker’ in The Drover’s Wives (2019) 182: Then she walloped the bugger a good one.

3. to overcome, to surpass, to defeat.

1889		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 14 Dec. 7/1: [headline] princeton wallops yale, / And Does the New Haven Boys Up Brown .
1893		Omaha Dly Bee (NE) 31 May 2/1: The Nonpareils were beautifully [...] wholloped.
1896		W.C. Gore Student Sl. in Cohen (1997) 4: wallop v. To gain the victory over.
1898		S. Aus. Register (Adelaide) 11 May 5/1: Among the words [...] which called forth enquiring interjections from Mr Justice Holroyd were [...] ‘whollop me down’ (meaning defeat me).
1912		Ade Knocking the Neighbors 63: We could wallop Great Britain at any Game from Polo up to Prize-Fighting.
1978		S. King Stand (1990) 37: Watch the Yankees wallop the piss out of Cleveland.

4. constr. with into, to consume voraciously.

1930

W.S. Maugham Bread-Winner Act I: I bet you walloped into the fatted calf [...] I managed to swallow a morsel of cold chicken.

5. to have sexual intercourse.

1962		R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 27: Marchmare walloping some bird.
1998		K. Sampson Awaydays 128: A few nights ago I walloped the lovely Sonia in here.
2001		K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 22: Derek was in there when I come out, the day I walloped Nadia.

6. (S.Afr.) to leave, to run away.

2005

A. Lovejoy Acid Alex 137: The only way to stop the pain and unspeakable loneliness would be to wallop.

7. (Polari) to dance, thus walloper, a dancer.

2019

P. Baker Fabulosa 299/1: wallop to dance [...] walloper a dancer.