dock-walloper

1. 1.

   a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

   Synonymsstevedoreloaderlongshoremandockerdockhanddock workerdockworkerlumper

   Broaderlaborer

Questions about dock-walloper

What does dock-walloper mean?

dock-walloper means "a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port".

How many syllables are in dock-walloper?

dock-walloper has 4 syllables: doc-k-wal-lo-per. The stress falls on "k-wal".

What is another word for dock-walloper?

Close synonyms include stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dock-walloper a common word?

dock-walloper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.