Definitions

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  • noun the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface

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Examples

  • Indeed, nothing in it — not its arch sociology, not its clippety-clop NPR rhythm and especially not that fancy double negative at the end — would have interested Hannah at all.

    Proudly Defying Description James Parker 2010

  • Bugambilia hangs everywhere, tile roofs meet whitewashed walls, painted wooden shutters pique the curiosity as to what's behind there, fruit trees droop with the weight of oranges, mangos, limones, and bananas, cobblestones echo the clippety-clop of hooves.

    Not for everybody?? 2003

  • I reached into the back and groped for my cell phone, and as I did so, I noticed for the first time that my car was listing and bouncing, a steady clippety-clop as the wheels turned.

    Last Lullaby Denise Hamilton 2004

  • I reached into the back and groped for my cell phone, and as I did so, I noticed for the first time that my car was listing and bouncing, a steady clippety-clop as the wheels turned.

    Last Lullaby Denise Hamilton 2004

  • Through the glass of my windowpane I heard the faint jingle of harness and the muffled clippety-clop of shod hoofs in new snow.

    Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995

  • The clippety-clop rhythms of rockabilly would not have been mainstreamed into the now standard 4/4 rock & roll beat.

    WN.com - Articles related to Apps can stop drivers from texting 2010

  • The clippety-clop rhythms of rockabilly would not have been mainstreamed into the now standard 4/4 rock & roll beat.

    WN.com - Articles related to Apps can stop drivers from texting 2010

  • The clippety-clop rhythms of rockabilly would not have been mainstreamed into the now standard 4/4 rock & roll beat.

    WN.com - Articles related to Apps can stop drivers from texting 2010

  • She wore respectable running shoes instead of her usual clippety-clop heels, and she’d somehow managed to make herself look like a young mother or maybe an au pair—a bit harassed, not a seamless fit into Kensington Gardens, but not altogether wrong either.

    Venom Joan Brady 2010

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