clopper
Appearance
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]clopper (plural cloppers)
- One who clops; a horse.
- 1953, Enid Blyton, Five Go Down to the Sea:
- Mr Binks over there is his front legs, and works his head, the horse's head, I mean. You should see old Clopper when he performs! My, there isn't a horse like him in the world.
- 1963, The New Yorker (volume 39, part 3, page 201)
- His slow-paced horse, a clopper and carrier of bells, filled the empty awakening.
- (My Little Pony fandom slang) One who engages in clopping.
- 2013 September 9, Thomas Raethel, “The Mysterious World of Bronies”, in Critic, number 22, University of Otago, page 33:
- Considering that a significant percentage of bronies are closeted, and taking into account the stigma attached to such practices, it is fair to assume that the real "clopper" population is likely far larger.
- 2013, Katrina Gardner, "Big Boys, Little Ponies", The Express (Las Positas College), Volume 24, Number 19, 5 April 2013, page 4:
- One clopper recently gained quite a bit of notoriety on the Internet by revealing just how far his obsession with the show had gone.
- 2015 September 18, Chuck Shepard, “News Of The Weird”, in Santa Monica Daily Press, volume 14, number 266, page 13:
- Alexander Carlsson, 25, was jailed in Sanford, Florida, in August on federal child pornography charges, but also told agents that he is a "clopper," which identifies him, he said, as one who masturbates while gazing at figurines and pictures depicting Hasbro's My Little Pony toys.