walloper
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walloper (plural wallopers)
- One who wallops.
- (Ireland) A cudgel, a shillelagh.
- (Scotland, slang, derogatory, vulgar) penis; (by extension) an idiot, a stupid person.
- (Australia) A police officer.
- 1950, Frank Hardy, Power Without Glory:
- Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!
- 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 84:
- Two days later we were picked up by the wallopers on Clucas' information.
- 2006, Andrew Stafford, Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden, page 106:
- Understandably the wallopers were called, and they cleared everybody out.
- (slang) Something big; a whopper.
- 1969, Field & Stream, volume 74, number 1, page 138:
- I'd had some wonderful fishing, but I hadn't landed a real walloper.
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- (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer