walloper

English

From wallop +‎ -er.

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.