clop
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
verb
noun
Etymology
Origin of clop
First recorded in 1895–1900; imitative
Example Sentences
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When I was young—five, maybe six—I was sure I'd levitated between the sofa and love seat of my childhood home, crashing to the ground when the clop of my father's footsteps severed my concentration.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022
Both use hesitation dribbles to keep defenders honest, clop through the lane with Eurosteps, and have the ability to drain annoyingly effective step-back 3-pointers with ease.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2019
And yet beneath it all that creaking, clanking sound continues to clop and clatter.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018
We watch as the men trick out their saddles with flashing CDs and plastic flowers, and as riders clop along the city streets, their leisurely pace at odds with the traffic around them.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2017
“Never knew people could get clopped so hard the way they clop them on those soap operas,” Mr. Savo said.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
Blakon clopped his front hooves on the pavement after every point Segura made.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023
He even clopped coconut shells together to imitate the sound of a galloping horse as Graham Chapman did in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2023
As we stood near the Reflecting Pool, a mounted Park Police officer clopped by on a horse.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019
The figure disappeared, and a new smaller person clopped toward her in chunky heels.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2011
Its voice spoke in my mind as it clopped away from the sword blade.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
“At any given point, the pike was a symphony of spinning wheels, creaking cabs, clopping hooves, and droning livestock,” Mr. Crytzer writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
During Bomba Estéreo’s energizing set, a dozen or so kids, some atop their parents’ bouncing shoulders, grooved to the vibrantly clopping percussion on the hard-surface dance floor laid in front of the stage.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
“I can’t say that I’m sorry when I don’t feel so wrong anymore,” Olsen sings atop light, clopping percussion and a lap steel that winks like it’s in a Steve Miller song.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
Early last week, bystanders on Victoria Road may have been fortunate enough to see Taranteeno the Marvellous clopping by.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2021
She goes across the square, her head down clopping .
From "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner
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