gallop

C2 Topic:Animals

Also spelled a-gallopin

US /ˈɡæləp/ See IPA manual

Freq #20005

Meanings

1

noun
a fast gait of a horse

The gallop was heard for miles.
2

verb
to ride at a galloping pace

They were galloping down the road.
3

verb
to cause to move at full gallop

Did you gallop the horse just now?
4

noun
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.

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Synonyms

3 verb · to cause to move at full... extend

Word family

Forms gallopedgalloping

Derived forms agallopgallopergallopinglyoutgallop

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Phrases (1)

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gallop rhythm
a heart rhythm containing an additional sound that resembles a galloping beat

Noun + noun

Simplified etymology

Gallop entered English in the early 16th century from Old French galoper. That verb is related to Old French waloper, the source of wallop, whose earliest English meaning was also “to gallop.”

Etymology

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 we...

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# gallop

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** /ˈɡæləp/
**Frequency rank:** 20005

## Meanings
1. a fast gait of a horse
2. to ride at a galloping pace
3. to cause to move at full gallop
4. An act or instance of going or running rapidly.

## Examples
- The gallop was heard for miles.
- They were galloping down the road.
- Did you gallop the horse just now?
- 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.

## Derived Forms
- agallop
- galloper
- gallopingly
- outgallop

## Etymology
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 we...

## Topics
- Animals

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