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gallop

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1. gallop - Noun

2. gallop - Verb

3. Gallop - Proper noun

Meaning

To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.

To ride a horse at a gallop.

Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

To cause to gallop.

A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on. Cordell Hull

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop. Marcello Mastroianni

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop. Robert Burton

When jackass smell corn, ‘im gallop. Jamaican Proverb

The horse never refuses a homeward gallop. African Proverb

Money makes the horse gallop whether he has shoes or not. Irish Proverb

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