wallop

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to strike hard, or a heavy resounding blow

   He walloped the ball clear over the fence.

Simplified etymology

Wallop originally meant “to gallop” and came from Old French waloper, a relative of galoper, the source of gallop. It later developed the senses “boil violently,” “move heavily or clumsily,” and “flap or flop about”; the familiar meaning “hit very hard” appeared in the early 19th century.

From Old North French walop ('a gallop'), originally meaning to gallop; the sense of striking a heavy blow developed in English by the 19th century.

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