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gallops

gallops is the plural of gallop.

gallops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gallop.

Meaning of gallop

Noun

gallop (plural gallops)

  1. The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
  2. An act or instance of going or running rapidly.
    • Charlie and Marnie fought at brunch and then confessed their undying love for each other; Ray got promoted by his coffee-shop boss and then dumped by his croissant-purse-toting girlfriend; and Hannah, with a deadline looming, her OCD blaring, and all her friends elsewhere, desperately FaceTimed...2013 March 18, The "Girls" Roundtable, “The 'Girls' Season-Finale Gut Check: And Hannah Lived Happily Ever After?”, in The Atlantic
  3. An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
  4. A rhythm consisting of an 8th note followed by two 16th notes, resembling a horse's gallop.
    • A gallop rhythm:
      \drums{\repeat unfold4{wbl8wbh16 16

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Proper noun capitalized: Gallops

Gallops

  1. (plural) plural of Gallop

Phrases with gallops

Questions about gallops

What is gallops the plural of?
Gallops is the plural of gallop.
What part of speech is gallops?
Gallops is a proper noun.

Words near gallops in the dictionary

  1. galloping dominoes
  2. galloping dominos
  3. gallopingly
  4. gallopings
  5. gallopins
  6. gallops
  7. gallopt
  8. galloptious
  9. gallore
  10. Gallos
  11. gallotannate

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