Wally

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Wally can mean:

• La Wally, an opera by Alfredo Catalani
• Wally, the polar bear from the webcomic Wally and Osborne, formerly known as On the Rocks.
• Wally B. Feed, a pirate sidekick in the Monkey Island computer game series.
• Wally (game) a game commonly played in schools in the north of England.
• Wally Cleaver, the older brother played by Tony Dow on Leave it to Beaver.
• Wally (Dilbert character), an incredibly lazy engineer from the Dilbert comic strip.
• Wally the Green Monster, mascot for the Boston Red Sox.
• Wally Hayward, South African ultra distance running legend.
• Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league footballer
• Wally (Pokémon), a character from the Pokémon video game series.
• Wally Squad, undercover policemen in Judge Dredd
• Wally the Weiner Dog
• Wally West, the alter ego of the third super-speedster hero to take up the mantle of The Flash in the DC Comics Universe.
• Wally Yachts, a maritime design and manufacture company.

Slang:

• a British colloquial term for the Gherkin. Originally it was London slang corruption of the word "Olive" but when Eastern European immigrants arrived in the late 19th Century they brought a liking for picked cucumbers which, like olives, were sold from wooden barrels and also began to be referred to as a wallies (mostly in the east-end of London).
• There was a 19th century explorer called Wally Williams who managed to 'discover' a new continent which turned out to be Australia (which had already been discovered). This has led Wally to become a British slang word for a fool.
• A character in the 1980's Australian water conservation campaign called Don't be a Wally with Water.

[edit] See also

• Wal-Mart, a multinational retail corporation is referred to as "Wally World".
• Where's Wally?, a character from a popular series of books of the same name (known as Waldo in the United States).