walloper

One who wallops.

Noun

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

Origin

Etymology tree English wallop English -er English walloper From wallop + -er.

Forms

wallopers

Synonyms

police officer

Derived

dock walloper pot-walloper