golp
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of golp
1555–65; perhaps < Spanish golpe a wound
Example Sentences
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It had been a good game of golp—from Mallory's standpoint, anyway.
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So that was why the man had broken with tradition and invited a common time-thief to a game of golp!
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The decision had been a wise one: "Easy Money" looked more like a horse than most real horses did, could travel twice as fast, and was as easy to ride and to maneuver as a golp jetney.
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I've got a golp date with Rowley of Puriproducts, so why don't you join us, Tom?
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He was reasonably certain that he had made no slips of the tongue during his visit to the Perfidion Tower and during the ensuing game of golp, and he was equally certain that he had let fall no revealing references to the place-time he had so carefully pinpointed.
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