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gal⋅lop⋅ing

  [gal-uh-ping]
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–adjective
1. at a gallop; running or moving quickly.
2. progressing rapidly to some conclusion, as a disease: galloping pneumonia.
3. growing or spreading rapidly: galloping inflation.
Origin:
1595–1605; gallop + -ing 2

gal⋅lop

  [gal-uhp]
–verb (used without object)
1. to ride a horse at a gallop; ride at full speed: They galloped off to meet their friends.
2. to run rapidly by leaps, as a horse; go at a gallop.
3. to go fast, race, or hurry, as a person or time.
–verb (used with object)
4. to cause (a horse or other animal) to gallop.
–noun
5. a fast gait of the horse or other quadruped in which, in the course of each stride, all four feet are off the ground at once.
6. a run or ride at this gait.
7. a rapid rate of going.
8. a period of going rapidly.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME galopen (v.) < OF galoper < Frankish *wala hlaupan to run well (see well 1 , leap ) or, alternatively, v. deriv. of *walhlaup, equiv. to *wal battlefield (c. OHG wal; see Valkyrie ) + *hlaup run, course (deriv. of the v.)

Related forms:
gal⋅lop⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
3. run, rush, dash, speed, fly, scoot.
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gal·lop   (gāl'əp)   
n.  
    1. A natural three-beat gait of a horse, faster than a canter, in which all four feet are off the ground at the same time during each stride.
    2. A fast running motion of other quadrupeds.
  2. A ride taken at a gallop.
  3. A rapid pace: Events were proceeding at a gallop.
  4. Medicine A disordered rhythm of the heart characterized by three or four distinct heart sounds in each cycle and resembling the sound of a galloping horse. Also called cantering rhythm, gallop rhythm.
v.   gal·loped, gal·lop·ing, gal·lops

v.   tr.
  1. To cause to gallop.
  2. To transport at or as if at a gallop: gallop the mail to the next station.
v.   intr.
  1. To ride a horse at a gallop.
  2. To move or progress swiftly: Summer was galloping by.

[From Middle English galopen, to go at a gallop, from Old French galoper, of Germanic origin; see wel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
gal'lop·er n.
gal·lop·ing   (gāl'ə-pĭng)   
adj.  
  1. Of or resembling a gallop, especially in rhythm or rapidity.
  2. Developing or progressing at an accelerated rate: galloping technology.
  3. Medicine Of or relating to a disease that progresses rapidly toward a fatal conclusion: galloping consumption.
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Galloping

Gal"lop*ing\, a. Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : galloping
Spanish: galopante,
German: galoppierend,
Japanese: 急速に進む
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Main Entry: galloping
Function: adjective
of a disease : progressing rapidly toward a fatal conclusion <galloping consumption>
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