run the gantlope

A form of run the gauntlet — To undergo a series of tests or challenges.

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Meanings

verbrun the gantlope (third-person singular simple present runs the gantlope, present participle running the gantlope, simple past ran the gantlope, past participle run the gantlope)

present singular third person runs the gantlope · participle present running the gantlope · past ran the gantlope

  1. alternativeAlternative form of run the gauntlet.

    When a soldier comes drunk upon the parade, gets drunk when on duty, goes away from his guard without leave, sleeps upon his post, or quits it before he is regularly relieved, he shall be confined, and the day following run the gantlope, without trial, ten times through 200 men.

    1757, Regulations for the Prussian Cavalry, page 350
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Chicago

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