galop

Meanings

Noun

• A lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time.
• The music for a dance of this kind.

Verb

• To dance the galop.

Origin

• From French galop; named after the fastest running gait of a horse (see gallop), a shortened version of the original term galoppade.