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galloper

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for galloper.

Editorial note

It can be really difficult to pin down a consistent Gish galloper, but you did great!

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A racehorse.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of galloper gathered in one view.

noun

A racehorse.

noun

One who gallops.

noun

An aide-de-camp.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for galloper.

noun

A racehorse.

noun

One who gallops.

noun

An aide-de-camp.

noun

(military) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.

Example sentences

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It can be really difficult to pin down a consistent Gish galloper, but you did great!

2

Gish galloping prioritizes the quantity of the galloper's arguments at the expense of their quality.

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If you allow hyperlinks, any Gish galloper could also use that to link to enormous texts of gallops with even more misinformation and half-truths.

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> I say 1MWh extracted daily Consider a single offshore turbine in the Galloper wind farm is rated at 6 MW and this doesn't look so impressive.

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Also related - Gish-gallop During a typical Gish gallop, the galloper confronts an opponent with a rapid series of specious arguments, half-truths, misrepresentations, and outright lies, making it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of the debate.[2] Each point raised by the Gish galloper takes considerably longer to refute than to assert.

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(An intended 13th galloper couldn't figure out how to gallop on the treadmill belt in the first place.) When researchers calculated their subjects' metabolic rates, they found that galloping was about 24% more costly than running at the same speed.

Quote examples

1

Look at that one go!" "Almost got as far as that three-legged galloper we saw just a few minutes back.

2

In practice, each point raised by the 'Gish galloper' takes considerably more time to refute or fact-check than it did to state in the first place").

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In practice, each point raised by the "Gish galloper" takes considerably more time to refute or fact-check than it did to state in the first place.

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If I'm talking to somebody like this I will usually say, "I don't have time right now to respond to all of these points, but here's my take on the first few (or the most salient points)." You will probably never convince the gish galloper, but if a third party is watching the discussion and they see the first few points get outed as disinformation, they'll be more skeptical of the rest of it.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use galloper in a sentence?

It can be really difficult to pin down a consistent Gish galloper, but you did great!

What does galloper mean?

A racehorse.

What part of speech is galloper?

galloper is commonly used as noun.