Gallop

/ˈɡæləp/ · noun

Meaning

The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously..

Definitions by Sense

1. The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
2. An act or instance of going or running rapidly.
3. (cardiology) An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
4. (music) A rhythm consisting of an 8th note followed by two 16th notes, resembling a horse's gallop.
5. (intransitive, of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.
6. (intransitive) To ride at a galloping pace.
7. (transitive) To cause to gallop.
8. (ambitransitive) 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.

Example Sentences

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.

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

The horse galloped past the finishing line.

Gallop lively down the western hill.

to gallop a horse

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.

Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.

Soon after breakfast Miss Matilda, having galloped and blundered through a few unprofitable lessons, and vengeably thumped the piano for an hour, in a terrible humour with both me and it, because her mama would not give her a holiday, […]

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• gallops
• galloping
• galloped

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