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Walloper vs Galloper - What's the difference?

walloper | galloper |

As nouns the difference between walloper and galloper

is that walloper is one who wallops while galloper is one who gallops.

walloper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who .
  • (Ireland) A cudgel, a shillelagh.
  • (Australia, slang, jocular) A policeman, a male police officer.
  • * 1950 , ,
    • Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!
  • * 1971 , , Dealing with Cops'', in ''Aussie Etiket'', quoted in 1988, ''Aussie Humour , Macmillan, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, 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.

    Synonyms

    * (police officer) see

    Derived terms

    * dock walloper * pot-walloper

    galloper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who gallops.
  • * Rudyard Kipling, The Drums of the Fore and Aft
    • The lancers chafing in the right gorge had thrice dispatched their only subaltern as galloper to report on the progress of affairs.
  • A racehorse.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 25, Rod Nicholson, Get ready for Hussler v Cat, Herald Sun citation
    • , passage=The Hussler's trainer, Ross McDonald, is confident Australia's champion galloper will win the clashes, despite Weekend Hussler never having competed over 1000m before. }}
  • A carousel.
  • (military) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.
    • (Farrow)