Green’s Dictionary of Slang

walloper n.1

[wallop v. (2)]

1. a blow.

[UK]Egan Life in London (1869) 294: She tipp’d him a volloper right across the snout.

2. anyone who beats up their victims with a cudgel or stick.

[UK]J. Greenwood Dick Temple II 114: Too much of a walloper, she is [...] and a starver.
[Aus]Sun. Times (Perth) 3 Jan. 5/2: [headline] Hot Stuff for Horse Wallopers.
[UK]P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 163: A big, cheap walloper with nothin’ but some muscles an’ a gun.

3. (US) anything or anyone exceptional in quality, size, character etc.

[UK]G.F. Northall Warwickshire Word-Book 259: Walloper. Anything huge of its kind.
[Aus]Queenslander (Brisbane) 28 July 45/3: Ho, I expect it will be a walloper.
[US]Boy’s Life Feb. 3: Lieutenant Strong has done a walloper: ‘Neptune Meets the Whale.’ A story of water polo that’ll make you want to get the old swimming suit to work again.
[US]W. Winchell On Broadway 11 Dec. [synd. col.] S. Halloway’s ‘recital’ was a walloper.

4. a cudgel; a cane.

[Scot]Chambers Edin. Jrnl 16 Dec. 369/2: I had a great mind to give him a clip then, but didn’t like to do it with such a walloper, so I makes a kick at him.
J. Barrington Personal Sketches 2 417: It was himself who had cracked the skull of Ned Cahill at the fair of Dysart, with a walloper.
[UK]Marvel XIV:343 June 15: The master got handy with his whangee walloper.

5. one who beats, e.g. hitting a child.

[Aus]Sun. Times (Perth) 29 Nov. 10/3: [headline] Brought to Book. A Wife-Walloper.
[Aus]Warwick Examiner & Times (St Lucia, Qld) 16 May 8/2: The champion female walloper of the world is Miss Heston, a school madam in Ohio.
[US]Van Loan ‘No Business’ in Taking the Count 151: He’s the roughest walloper in seven counties.
[UK]K. Lette Llama Parlour 232: He wasn’t a walloper, my dad. If I threw a tantrum or something, he’d just start singing the anthem.

6. in fig. use of sense 1.

[US]Billboard 11 Mar. 17: This season has been a walloper for lay-offs via grippe, flu and pneumonia, not to speak of a variety of twists and sprains,.
A.J. Rathbun Party Drinks 27: The Long Island Iced Tea is a walloper. Be careful when drinking, as its friendly taste disguises its potency.

7. (Aus./N.Z. milit.) a worker, e.g. base walloper, a clerk; security walloper, a guard [influenced by wallah n.].

L.N. Smith Lingo of No Man’s Land 66: POULTICE WALLOPERS Hospital orderlies.
[UK]P. MacGill Moleskin Joe 63: Come on, you uncircumcized poultice-faced muck-wallopers and grease to’t!
[Aus]Western Mail (Perth) 26 June 2/4: I fancy he served with the A.A.M.C. — ‘poultice-walloper’.
[UK](con. WWI) A.E. Strong in Partridge Sl. Today and Yesterday 287: He is a shrewd head, but I think he would give a man a fair go although he is a base-walloper.
[NZ]D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 147: Almost makes a man want to be a base walloper.
[NZ](con. 1940s) G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 154: I soon wangled my way to platoon headquarters as platoon runner. Bloody base walloper the others said but they didn’t mean it.
[UK]S. Hugill Sailortown 4: Working down hatches, chipping the side , and so on — duties [...] only suitable to longshoremen and cargo wallopers.
[Aus](con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 117: A corpulent A.S.C. captain was seated on a rock, one boot off, examining a blistered heel [...] A base walloper, Gunner surmised, from one of those support units that seldom marched.
[Scot](con. 1940s) G. Stewart Leveller 91: ‘Bob, for Christ’s sake, Green’s a security walloper,’ I gee’d.
[NZ]McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 13/2: base walloper Kiwi version of a base wallah, or military pen pusher; ‘wallah’, Hindi ‘wala’, connected with, was habitually added on to functions to suggest functionary in Anglo-Indian army; here refined by pun on base as bum.
[NZ]McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].

8. (Aus.) a police officer; cite 1909 refers to a fireman.

[Aus]Sun. Times (Perth) 26 June 9/6: Wellington-st. Walloper. All those who walk down Wellington-street / This uniformed person will meet.
[Aus]Sun. Times (Perth) 21 Feb. 3s/4: Valiant Flame-Walloper [...] an indignant fire-walloper rushed in.
[Aus]‘The Dying Bagman’ in Seal Lingo (1999) 96: Where the demons and wallopers can’t worry me, / In the shade where the old rattler blows.
[Aus]Baker Aus. Lang. 137: We also call a policeman a rat [...] and a walloper.
[Aus]F.J. Hardy Power Without Glory 33: Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!
[Aus]‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 79: Wallopers in front [...] Looks like the border.
[Aus]A. Buzo Norm and Ahmed (1973) 20: Go easy on the old wallopers, that’s what I say, give the coppers a fair go.
[US]J Hepworth His Book 164: Apart from sharing the nationwide constabulary sensitivity to being called ‘mug coppers’ or ‘wallopers’, the Canberra fuzz are particularly touchy about two things.
[Aus]R.G. Barrett You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 155: Eight of the biggest Queensland wallopers you’d ever wish to see burst through the doors.
[Aus]R.G. Barrett Davo’s Little Something 37: The wallopers have been round with a warrant [...] for parking fines.
[Aus]J. Birmingham Tasmanian Babes Fiasco (1998) 211: The wallopers were in the living room, which was a bit nasty.
[Aus]R.G. Barrett Leaving Bondi (2013) [ebook] After unexpectedly seeing the wallopers, Les felt like something soothing.
[US]B. Lovell Fugitive on the Run 344: If you get lost, you can always turn to a walloper for help.
[Aus](con. 1943) G.S. Manson Coorparoo Blues [ebook] The Yanks didn’t call the local wallopers.
[Aus]D. Whish-Wilson Shore Leave 117: ‘More than subtle intimidation was called for, young lady [...] Why I called an ex-walloper’.

9. (also wolloper) a clumsy fellow.

[US]W. Guthrie Bound for Glory (1969) 405: Walk careful! Don’t hafta waste my time fishin’ no land wallopers outa this slimy warsh!
[US]W.T. Vollmann You Bright and Risen Angels (1988) 78: The lazy damned wollopers.

10. (Aus.) the penis.

[US]San Diego Sailor 58: He came back with [...] his walloper like a rod out in front of him.
[Aus]B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 8: They’re that desperate for the white man’s walloper over there.
[US]B. Hamper Rivethead (1992) 203: Mel brandished his walloper as Kate’s ample melons glistened in the piss-colored haze.

11. (N.Z.) a masturbator.

[NZ] McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl.

12. see wallop v. (7)