GALLOP


Meaning of GALLOP in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ gæləp ]

( gallops, galloping, galloped)

1.

When a horse gallops , it runs very fast so that all four legs are off the ground at the same time. If you gallop a horse, you make it gallop.

The horses galloped away...

Staff officers galloped fine horses down the road.

VERB : V adv / prep , V n prep / adv

2.

If you gallop , you ride a horse that is galloping.

Major Winston galloped into the distance.

VERB : V prep / adv

3.

A gallop is a ride on a horse that is galloping.

I was forced to attempt a gallop.

N-SING

4.

If something such as a process gallops , it develops very quickly and is often difficult to control.

In spite of the recession, profits have galloped ahead.

...galloping inflation.

VERB : V adv , V-ing

5.

If you gallop , you run somewhere very quickly.

They are galloping around the garden playing football.

VERB : V prep

6.

If you do something at a gallop , you do it very quickly.

I read the book at a gallop.

PHRASE : PHR after v

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