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clopping

clopping is the present participle and gerund of clop.

Noun

clopping (countable and uncountable, plural cloppings)

  1. The sound or action of something that clops.
    • But this morning was different. Disturbingly, because mysteriously, different. No wheels rumbled, no busses roared, no sound of a car of any kind, in fact, was to be heard; no brakes, no horns, not even the clopping of the few rare horses that still occasionally passed; nor, as there should be at...1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 9
    • The hooves' cloppings came to them down the path.a. 1989, Samuel R. Delany, Return to Nevèrÿon
  2. (My Little Pony fandom slang) The act of masturbating to erotic fanart of My Little Pony characters.
    • According to an internal study undertaken by bronies themselves, 19.05 per cent of respondents engaged in clopping.2013 September 9, Thomas Raethel, “The Mysterious World of Bronies”, in Critic, number 22, University of Otago, page 33
    • You prove your ability to procreate by tastefully introducing your Mother to your My Little Pony collection and your fervent love of clopping (Urban Dictionary it) and your amazing fedora hat rack!2014 May, Brian R., “Top 5: Mother's Day Gifts”, in Desire Magazine, page 19

Meaning of clop

Verb

clop (third-person singular simple present clops, present participle clopping, simple past and past participle clopped)

  1. To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.
    • Robert Loo sat and listened behind his counter, his heart aching, his eyes staring at nothing, while his brothers cheerfully clopped around, occasionally calling to the kitchen, as customers drifted somnambulistically in.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 569

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Forms of clopping

pluralcloppings

Words formed from clopping

Words that rhyme with clopping

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Questions about clopping

What does clopping mean?
Clopping means the sound or action of something that clops.
What is clopping the present participle and gerund of?
Clopping is the present participle and gerund of clop.
What part of speech is clopping?
Clopping is a noun.
What is the plural of clopping?
The plural of clopping is cloppings.

Words near clopping in the dictionary

  1. clopped
  2. clopper
  3. cloppers
  4. cloppety
  5. cloppety-clop
  6. clopping
  7. cloppings
  8. cloppity
  9. cloppity-clop
  10. cloppy
  11. clopradone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clopping (page history and authors); clop (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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