Definitions for gallops

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gallops gal·lop

Spelling: [gal-uh p]

IPA: /ˈgæl əp/

Gallops is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in gallops (agllops).

Definitions for gallops

noun

1. a fast gait of the horse or other quadruped in which, in the course of each stride, all four feet are off the ground at once.
2. a run or ride at this gait.
3. a rapid rate of going.
4. a period of going rapidly.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause (a horse or other animal) to gallop.

verb (used without object)

1. to ride a horse at a gallop; ride at full speed:
2. to run rapidly by leaps, as a horse; go at a gallop.
3. to go fast, race, or hurry, as a person or time.

Origin of gallops

1375-1425; late Middle English galopen (v.) Old French galoper Frankish *wala hlaupan to run well (see well¹, Examples for gallops

He could gallop, else he had not won the race in which he beat The Dutchman.

The force of his gallop carried the Black full over onto his back.

"If ye'd see him gallop the day he run away, ye'd think he had class," said Mike.

At one point the coach driver whipped the horses into a gallop and drove right through the Hessian army.

Still there was no check in the Black's gallop; he was like a devil that could go on forever and ever.

This information had been brought to Langdon, but he also had observed the gallop.

"Now, my beauty, they'll have to gallop," Porter was saying.

Take them out at three-quarter gallop down the back stretch.

“Our entire aim is to help make it easier to talk about sex,” says gallop.

The haredi leadership is ready to gallop at full speed over this religious fiscal cliff.