The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word WALLOPED
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What does WALLOPED mean?
WALLOPED verb- To rush hastily.
- To flounder, wallow.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- To wrap up temporarily.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- To be slatternly.
- To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.