Definition of gallop

• v. i. - To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
• v. i. - To ride a horse at a gallop.
• v. i. - Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
• v. t. - To cause to gallop.
• v. i. - A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.