Meaning of Trot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Trotskyist.
   derogatory, slang
2. A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
   uncountable
3. A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
4. A brisk journey or progression.
5. A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
6. A toddler.
7. A moderately rapid dance.
8. A young animal.
   obsolete
9. An ugly old woman, a hag.
   archaic, derogatory
10. A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
    Australia, obsolete
11. A run of luck or fortune.
    Australia, New-Zealand
12. Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
    dated, slang
13. Diarrhoea.
    informal

Equivalents

Examples

“Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village.”

“We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.”

“In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.”

“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'.”

“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.”

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