Usually means: Fast running gait of horses.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gallop: Merriam-Webster
  2. gallop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gallop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gallop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gallop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gallop, gallop: Wordnik
  7. gallop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gallop, gallop: Wiktionary
  9. gallop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gallop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gallop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gallop: Dictionary.com
  13. gallop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gallop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gallop (disambiguation), Gallop (drumming), Gallop (studio), Gallop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gallop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gallop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gallop: Rhymezone
  19. gallop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gallop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gallop: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gallop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gallop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gallop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gallop: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gallop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. gallop: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. gallop: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GALLOP: Acronym Finder
  2. gallop: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gallop, gallop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gallop: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See galloped as well.)

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noun:  The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
noun:  An act or instance of going or running rapidly.
noun:  (cardiology) An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
noun:  (music) A rhythm consisting of an 8th note followed by two 16th notes, resembling a horse's gallop.
verb:  (intransitive, of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.
verb:  (intransitive) To ride at a galloping pace.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to gallop.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
verb:  (intransitive) To run very fast.
verb:  (figurative, intransitive) To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
verb:  (intransitive, of an infection, especially pneumonia) To progress rapidly through the body.
noun:  A surname.

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