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Gallop

//ˈɡæləp// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
  2. 2
    a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously wordnet
  3. 3
    An act or instance of going or running rapidly.

    "Charlie and Marnie fought at brunch and then confessed their undying love for each other; Ray got promoted by his coffee-shop boss and then dumped by his croissant-purse-toting girlfriend; and Hannah, with a deadline looming, her OCD blaring, and all her friends elsewhere, desperately FaceTimed Adam—who took a shirtless, rom-commy gallop across Brooklyn to meet her."

  4. 4
    An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
  5. 5
    A rhythm consisting of an 8th note followed by two 16th notes, resembling a horse's gallop.

    "A gallop rhythm: \drums{\repeat unfold4{wbl8wbh16 16"

Verb
  1. 1
    To run at a gallop. intransitive

    "The horse galloped past the finishing line."

  2. 2
    ride at a galloping pace wordnet
  3. 3
    To ride at a galloping pace. intransitive

    "Gallop lively down the western hill."

  4. 4
    cause to move at full gallop wordnet
  5. 5
    To cause to gallop. transitive

    "to gallop a horse"

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  1. 6
    go at galloping speed wordnet
  2. 7
    To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines. ambitransitive
  3. 8
    To run very fast. intransitive

    "In the 11th minute the German won possession in midfield and teed up the galloping Kieran Gibbs, whose angled shot was pushed by Kelvin Davies straight into the retreating Jos Hooiveld."

  4. 9
    To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination. figuratively, intransitive

    "Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it."

  5. 10
    To progress rapidly through the body. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). More at well, leap, valkyrie. See also the doublet wallop, coming from the same source through an Old Northern French variant.

Etymology 2

From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). More at well, leap, valkyrie. See also the doublet wallop, coming from the same source through an Old Northern French variant.

Etymology 3

English surname, variant of Gallup.

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