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trot
1[ trot ]
verb (used without object)
- (of a horse) to go at a gait between a walk and a run, in which the legs move in diagonal pairs, but not quite simultaneously, so that when the movement is slow one foot at least is always on the ground, and when fast all four feet are momentarily off the ground at once.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to trot.
- to ride (a horse) at a trot.
- to lead at a trot.
- to travel over by trotting:
to spend the day trotting the country byways.
- to execute by trotting.
noun
- the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
- the sound made by an animal when trotting.
- the jogging gait of a human being, between a walk and a run.
- Harness Racing. a race for trotters.
- brisk, continuous movement or activity:
I've been on the trot all afternoon.
- Archaic: Disparaging. an old woman.
- the trots, Informal. diarrhea.
- Informal. a toddling child.
Trot
1/ trɒt /
noun
- informal.a follower of Trotsky; Trotskyist
trot
2/ trɒt /
verb
- to move or cause to move at a trot
- angling to fish (a fast-moving stream or river) by using a float and weighted line that carries the baited hook just above the bottom
noun
- a gait of a horse or other quadruped, faster than a walk, in which diagonally opposite legs come down together See also jog trot rising trot sitting trot
- a steady brisk pace
- (in harness racing) a race for horses that have been trained to trot fast
- angling
- one of the short lines attached to a trotline
- the trotline
- informal.a run of luck
a good trot
- a small child; tot
- slang.a student's crib
- on the trot informal.
- one after the other
to read two books on the trot
- busy, esp on one's feet
- the trots informal.
- diarrhoea
- trotting races
Sensitive Note
Other Words From
- un·trotted adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of trot1
Word History and Origins
Origin of trot1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with trot , also see hot to trot .Example Sentences
While some longer Trots exist—up to half-marathon lengths—people who haven’t run in a while should avoid signing up for them.
Turkey Trots are set to return on Thanksgiving after a year hiatus, and at least one runner is ready to take his trot to the next level.
Other athletes can get digestive issues, but they are usually much different than runner’s trots and are not as common.
The whole point of being a pageant queen is to trot around in your bikini to be ogled at while feigning sexual naiveté.
And, of course, they trot out the Constitution to justify their actions, much as the slave holders did 150 years earlier.
He had to urge his horse to a trot, and he went tagging alongside the funnel to see what it would do.
Then I just have to “retrieve payload” from Coinapult, trot on back over to Blockchain and BAM!
Oscar forecasters like to trot out old statistics when deciding who will win which awards.
The truth is, it is not safe to trot down such mountains and hardly to ride down them at all.
But I have some more foul way to trot through still, in your Epistles and Satyrs, &c.
Soon he begins to trot, and, when he thinks himself out of sight, bounds off like a greyhound.
To the left of us a horse snorted nervously; we heard him trot with high, springy strides to the end of his rope, and snort again.
I don't want to go back into my life, I don't want to trot out the old 'more sinned against than sinning' cliché.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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