Definitions for Lopes

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Lopes lope

Spelling: [lohp]

IPA: /loʊp/

Lopes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in Lopes (elops).

Definitions for Lopes

noun

1. the act or the gait of loping.
2. a long, easy stride.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to lope, as a horse.

verb (used without object)

1. to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person.
2. to canter leisurely with a rather long, easy stride, as a horse.

Origin of Lopes

1375-1425; late Middle English Dutch lopen to run, cognate with Old English hlēapan to leap

Examples for Lopes

The horse broke into a lope on the level stretch in answer to the spur.

They had scented danger, but it was too late for the foremost to turn and lope off.

Without waiting for him to reply, she urged her horse into a lope.

He was taught not to trot, but to go directly from the walk to the "lope."

Without a word in reply the Elder turned his horse and started off at a lope.

The ponies were coming at the lope now, and not an instant was to be lost.

The six blue figures were only fifty feet away, approaching him at a lope.

He was moving leisurely, keeping his horse at the cattle pony's lope.

Duane and Dicky lope backstage afterwards to “do some sniff,” as Dicky terms it.

The great lope, in 1630, acknowledged him as a poet and his friend.