clippety-clop
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9.0
- noun
- /ˈklɪpɪti klɒp/
- Baby Talk
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clip-clop
- Soon we're gonna reach the top, clippety clop...
Examples
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Clippety-clop, clippety-clop.
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♪ Clippety clop over hill and plain
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Clippety-clop, clippety-clop.
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♪ Clippety clop, clippety clop
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♪ Clippety clop, clippety clop
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♪ Clippety clop... -
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♪ Clippety clop...
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We bowled down Front Street, clippety-clop, with people on the sidewalks too open-mouthed with astonishment even to laugh or make rude remarks, and turned over to Mohonk with half the town tagging after us.
Fiction book (1991) -
The sound of the horse's hooves made a cheerful clippety-clop as they trotted down the cobblestone street.
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As the carriage rolled by, the rhythmic clippety-clop echoed through the quiet village.
Synonyms
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4.3
The sound a horse's hoof makes when it hits the ground
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7.9
A short loud sound made when a horse's hoof hits a hard surface
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5.1
The sound horse hooves make when they hit a hard road in a steady regular beat
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7.7
A rhythmic sound horse hooves make on a hard surface
A series of quick, sharp sounds like train wheels or high heels
How Loud
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Clippety-clop copies the sound of horse hooves. Clop is the short, hard sound 'clop' each hoof makes, and the extra clippety- gives a sense of a steady beat, so clippety-clop helps you hear the regular hoof sounds as a horse moves.