gallop

plural gallops

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.

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   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.

   2013 March 18, The "Girls" Roundtable, “The 'Girls' Season-Finale Gut Check: And Hannah Lived Happily Ever After?”, in The Atlantic

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

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

present singular third person gallops · participle present galloping · participle past galloped · past galloped

1. intransitiveetcTo run at a gallop.

   The horse galloped past the finishing line.

2. intransitiveTo ride at a galloping pace.

   Gallop lively down the western hill.

   a. 1631, John Donne, Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn

3. transitiveTo cause to gallop.

   to gallop a horse

4. ambitransitiveTo 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.
5. intransitiveTo run very fast.

   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.

   2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian

6. figurativelyintransitiveTo go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

   Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.

   a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC

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   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, […]

   1847, Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

7. intransitiveespecially pneumoniaTo progress rapidly through the body.

plural Gallops

1. A surname.