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hoofbeats

hoofbeats is the plural of hoofbeat.

Meaning of hoofbeat

Noun

hoofbeat (plural hoofbeats)

  1. The sound of a hoof striking the ground.
    • at the hoof-beats of fate1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II)

Questions about hoofbeats

What is hoofbeats the plural of?
Hoofbeats is the plural of hoofbeat.

Words near hoofbeats in the dictionary

  1. hoof-and-mouth disease
  2. hoof-mark
  3. hoof-marks
  4. hoofball
  5. hoofbeat
  6. hoofbeats
  7. hoofbound
  8. hoofed
  9. hoofed it
  10. hoofed locust
  11. hoofed locusts

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