trot
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (chiefly 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).Examples: "Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop."; "The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot.[…]The slow trot is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the trot of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended trot."; "To assume the correct position for the posting trot, first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position. Then put the horse into a slow or sitting trot at six miles an hour. Do not post."
2. (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
3. (obsolete) A young animal.obsolete
4. (archaic, derogatory) An ugly old woman, a hag.Synonyms: old womanarchaicderogatory
5. (Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.Australiaobsolete
6. (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.Examples: "He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon."; "It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there."; "Should he or she be having a bad trot, the exchange rate will be higher than normal."AustraliaNew-Zealand
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.Examples: "I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop."; "The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side."; "I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart."intransitive
2. (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.intransitive
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.transitive
4. (UK, slang, archaic, transitive) To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.Examples: "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."UKarchaicslangtransitive
noun (English)
1. (slang, derogatory) A Trotskyist.Examples: "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"."; "We believed that the Trots represented a mad, extreme form of Labour that was never going to do anything for anybody, yet we felt strongly that nothing would be achieved by jumping ship and defecting to the SDP."Synonyms: Trotskyitederogatoryslang
Definition source: Wiktionary