trot

noun trots

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.

   Similar: jog

2. A brisk journey or progression. We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.
3. of horses A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together). The mare started at a walk before breaking into a trot.
4. 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.
5. A moderately rapid dance.
6. obsolete A young animal.
7. archaic, derogatory An ugly old woman, a hag.

   Similar: old woman

8. Australia, obsolete A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
9. Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad" A run of luck or fortune. He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
10. dated, slang Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)

    Similar: horse

11. informal, as 'the trots' Diarrhoea. He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.

verb trots · trotting · trotted

1. intransitive To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run. I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.
2. intransitive, of a horse To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
3. transitive To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
4. UK, archaic, slang, transitive To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods. 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.

Similar: run, jog, pace

noun

1. uncountable A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.

   Similar: ppongjjak

noun trots

1. alternative Alternative form of Trot (“Trotskyist”). 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'.

noun Trots · trot

1. derogatory, slang A Trotskyite. 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".

   Similar: Trotskyite