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in a canter

in a canter is the alternative form of at a canter.

Meaning of at a canter

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Without much effort; effortlessly; easily.
    • “When an artist becomes pop, it’s because the people choose it,” she says, now speaking at a canter.2019 June 28, Michael Cragg, “Meet Rosalía”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    in a walk

Questions about in a canter

What is in a canter the alternative form of?
In a canter is the alternative form of at a canter.

Words near in a canter in the dictionary

  1. in a blink
  2. in a body
  3. in a box
  4. in a brace of shakes
  5. in a bubble
  6. in a canter
  7. in a cleft stick
  8. in a corner
  9. in a couple of shakes
  10. in a crack
  11. in a dither

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in a canter (page history and authors); at a canter (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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