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clippety-clop

clippety-clop is the alternative form of clippety-cloppety.

Meaning of clippety-cloppety

Noun

clippety-cloppety (uncountable)

  1. The sound a horse makes when walking on a hard surface in horseshoes

Questions about clippety-clop

What is clippety-clop the alternative form of?
Clippety-clop is the alternative form of clippety-cloppety.

Words near clippety-clop in the dictionary

  1. clippers
  2. Clipperton
  3. Clipperton Island
  4. clippest
  5. clippeth
  6. clippety-clop
  7. clippety-cloppety
  8. clippie
  9. clippies
  10. clipping
  11. clipping it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clippety-clop (page history and authors); clippety-cloppety (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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