lope? (elope)

[Vanda]

Dear people,

I thouhgt I´ve heard this word: loping, referring to people escaping to get married on a TV series. Is it correct or is there an expression close to this one?

Thank you all!

 

[cuchuflete]

Oi Vanda,

That's elope.

Um abraço,
Qxu






fugir p'ra casar

 

[Vanda]

lol. That´s why I haven´t found it in a dic.
Thank you Cuchu.

 

[panjandrum]

Vanda,
You should have found lope, loping in your dictionary?

To lope is to run with a long bounding stride - wolves lope. Maybe you were ignoring this meaning because it is not relevant for your context.

 

[Vanda]

[...]
Well, I had found : to run or ride with a steady, easy gait, jog, rush, hurry
for lope. And in pt: galopar = to gallop, then I thought it could have a link between the fact of galloping a horsing in escape - as it used to be on yore days, a guy gallopping with his lady on horse back - and the fact of a couple escaping to get married.
[...]