clopping

verb

present participle of clop
as in clop-clopping

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clopping
  1. sputtering
  2. clicking
  3. clashing
  4. clinking
  5. clattering
  6. spattering
  7. clacking
  8. chirping
Verb
  • Some analysts attributed the drop-off to sputtering demand as investors moved past the company's splashy listing and took a closer look at its bottom line.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • With the Red Sox sputtering in last place in the AL East, the organization has bigger problems than Contreras.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of sputtering
Verb
  • To that end, players of Belmira’s City by Michael Heizer [Free Version], which anyone can try by clicking here, must start behind an intentionally obtrusive no-trespassing fence.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Donors can further protect themselves by navigating directly to an organization's official website instead of clicking unexpected donation links in texts, emails or social media posts.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of clicking
Verb
  • Extremist settlers routinely enter Palestinian towns, clashing with villagers and burning homes, mosques and cars.
    — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Extremist settlers routinely enter Palestinian towns, clashing with villagers, burning homes, mosques and cars.
    — Sam Metz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of clashing
Verb
  • Just the sight of the glasses, dewy with condensation on the outside and filled to the rim with clinking ice, nearly chilled my body.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The smell of sterile floors, gowns, instruments on clinking metal trays.
    — Rebekah Taussig, Time, 7 July 2026
Definition of clinking
Verb
  • Added to the mix were pottery workshops and artisan weavers, the traditional hand looms clattering away.
    — Lucy Gillmore, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2026
  • All but one of these 22 songs could slot seamlessly into More Chaos’ clattering tracklist.
    — Eli Enis, Pitchfork, 9 July 2026
Definition of clattering
Verb
  • Pineiro's left eye was punished by Price's right hooks, but Pineiro cut Price's mouth in the fifth round and Price couldn't prevent blood spattering her chest, white shirt and shorts for the rest of the bout.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Cara's golden face was covered in fresh dirt, spattering her mouth, nose, eyes, and head, with plenty more sprinkled on the concrete patio beneath her.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Definition of spattering
Verb
  • Once, when his unit came under heavy fire, a soldier running for cover caught a glimpse of Salinger hunched under a table, clacking away like a frenzied newsman on deadline.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Automobile horns echoed here and there in the distance, and as the government railway train departed the station under the bridge, a string of small lights heralded the far-off clacking of its wheels.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of clacking
Verb
  • Even though the first game sold out on a rainy night, on the second night, a clear summer evening with cicadas chirping beneath a starry sky, the stadium was only two-thirds full.
    — Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Field recordings—from the preparation of street food to birds chirping, taken mostly in public spaces around Doha—are a kind of sonic memory of a place that is rapidly changing.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of chirping
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“Clopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clopping. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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