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Definition of Gallop
Gallop
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.


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Gallop Quotations
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Virginia Woolf

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.
Colleen McCullough

Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.
Bradley Chicho

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
John Webster

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

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Gallop Translations
gallop in Dutch is galopperen
gallop in French is galop
gallop in German is Galopp
gallop in Italian is galoppo
gallop in Norwegian is galoppere, galopp
gallop in Spanish is galope






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