loping

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Hippos, Burroughs outpaces his eager young collaborator (Kerouac was 23 when the book was conceived and written) with long, loping, and self-assured strides, pushing the syringe deeper into the vein, peering into the air-conditioned nightmare yet to come, elevating what was intended to be a dime store crime novel into the realm of sharp, keen-eyed social history and prognostication.

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  1. intransitive verb To run or ride with a steady, easy gait.
  2. noun A steady, easy gait.

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  • And the original, that long, loping, pristine tune that he'd extracted from his notebook Looking at it now, he was no longer sure. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 05 - May 1995
  • He rode up slowly on the loping, bovine mount which had cloven hooves and a broad head, a massive hump above its shoulders, like that of certain cattle Elric had seen in scrolls depicting the Southern Continent. —  And when Elric had told his three lies to Cymoril, his betrothed, and had set his ambitious cousin Yyrkoon as Regent on the Ru
  • Then it began to move forward, half-loping, half- slithering from its jungle hiding place Mishra froze for a moment, but only for a moment. —  JEFF GRUBB
  • The man changed his sprint to an antelope loping, and kept going Once more, Doc fired. —  152 - The Thing That Pursued
  • Hippos, Burroughs outpaces his eager young collaborator (Kerouac was 23 when the book was conceived and written) with long, loping, and self-assured strides, pushing the syringe deeper into the vein, peering into the air-conditioned nightmare yet to come, elevating what was intended to be a dime store crime novel into the realm of sharp, keen-eyed social history and prognostication. —  PopMatters
 

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