clip-clop

noun

ˈklip-ˌkläp 

: the sound made by or as if by a horse walking on a hard surface

clip-clop intransitive verb

Examples of clip-clop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Stagecoaches still clip-clop through town, cowboys still walk the streets and bartenders still pour whiskey in the saloons where the Earps and Clantons drank. — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025

There’s something special about salty ocean breezes paired with the clip-clop of horse hooves. — AFAR Media, 17 Dec. 2024

The camera’s pretty static, the characters’ are pretty goofy-looking to the contemporary eye, the story unfolds at the clip-clop pace of carriage horses who do not actually want to go through the pass into Transylvania. — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024

In fact, on early summer mornings, you’ll be awakened by the clip-clop of prized thoroughbred hooves making their way out to their morning workouts. — Laura Ratliff, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2024

Even in the center of Gaza City, hundreds of carts add a 19th-century clip-clop to the chaotic traffic. — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023

Alpine Carriage Company and Pegasus Horse-Drawn Carriages take sightseers through town with the clip-clop soundtrack of horses hooves. — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023

Word History

Etymology

imitative

First Known Use

1884, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for clip-clop

• atop
• backdrop
• backstop
• bebop
• blacktop
• bookshop
• clatsop
• desktop
• eavesdrop
• estop
• hardtop
• hilltop