walloper
English
Etymology
From wallop + -er.
Noun
walloper (plural wallopers)
- One who wallops.
- (Ireland) A cudgel, a shillelagh.
- (Scotland, slang, derogatory, vulgar) penis; (by extension) an idiot, a stupid person.
- (Australia, slang, humorous) A policeman, a male police officer.
- 1950, Frank Hardy, Power Without Glory,
- Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!
- 1971, John O'Grady, Dealing with Cops, in Aussie Etiket, quoted in 1988, Aussie Humour, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 200,
- Uniformed cops are generally known as ‘wallopers’, and cops in plain clothes are called ‘demons’. These latter, supposed to be disguised, are instantly recognisable.
- 2006, Andrew Stafford, Pig City: From the Saints to Savage Garden, page 106,
- Understandably the wallopers were called, and they cleared everybody out.
- 1950, Frank Hardy, Power Without Glory,
Synonyms
- (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer
Derived terms
- dock walloper
- pot-walloper
Anagrams
- rope wall