walloper colloq. or jocular.
(ˈwɒləpə(r))
[f. wallop v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who thrashes. b. Anything with which one administers a thrashing; a stick.
| 1832 Barrington Personal Sk. III. xviii. 256 Armed with his ‘walloper’ (as they called their cudgel). |
2. dial. Anything strikingly large or big; a ‘thumper’, ‘whopper’; e.g. an astounding lie. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.)
3. As second element in compounds. cod-walloper, a cod-fishing vessel (Cent. Dict.); dock-walloper, see dock n.3 7. Also potwalloper.
4. Austral. slang. A policeman.
| 1945 Baker Austral. Lang. vii. 137 We also call a policeman a..walloper. 1954 Coast to Coast 1953–4 175 A showman he was. Knock-around man. Always two jumps ahead of the wallopers. 1968 D. O'Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 54 Roebourne boasted one pub, one police station with two wallopers in it,..and a hospital. 1981 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Jan. 391, I could quite happily call them my friends. I could never think of them as wallopers. |