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Trot

//tɹɑt// noun, verb, slang

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Noun

1
A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
"Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village."
2
A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections. uncountable
3
Alternative form of Trot (“Trotskyist”). alt-of, alternative
"The problem is that the likes of Shapps and his boss Boris Johnson are eager for a fight with the unions. They are being deliberately provocative, so they can portray railway workers as 'troublesome trots'."
4
A Trotskyist. derogatory, slang
"Loyal to a tee, he is still at a loss to understand the failure of the Frank Dobson candidacy in the London mayoral contest, and abandoned constituency meetings after a couple of events because they were "too dominated by Trots"."
5
a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together wordnet

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6
A brisk journey or progression.
"We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach."
7
a slow pace of running wordnet
8
A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
"Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop."
9
a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) wordnet
10
A toddler.
"1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123, […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories."
11
radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution wordnet
12
A moderately rapid dance.
13
A young animal. obsolete
14
An ugly old woman, a hag. archaic, derogatory
15
A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up. Australia, obsolete
16
A run of luck or fortune. Australia, New-Zealand
"He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon."
17
Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid) dated, slang
18
Diarrhoea. informal
"He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet."

Verb

1
To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run. intransitive
"I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop."
2
run at a moderately swift pace wordnet
3
To move at a gait between a walk and a canter. intransitive
4
cause to trot wordnet
5
To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering. transitive

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ride at a trot wordnet
7
To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods. UK, archaic, slang, transitive
"A particular friend of mine complained that I had "trotted" him at a sale, but he did not see what was happening on the part of the other bidder."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of trade and tread.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre.

Etymology 4

Clipping.

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