clopper

English

Etymology

clop +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)

Noun

clopper (plural cloppers)

1. 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.

2. (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.