Definition of The trots

1. Noun. Obscene terms for diarrhea.

Exact synonyms: The Shits
Language type: Argot, Cant, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vernacular
Generic synonyms: Diarrhea, Diarrhoea, Looseness, Looseness Of The Bowels

Lexicographical Neighbors of The Trots

the shoe is on the other foot
the shoemaker's children go barefoot
the skinny
the sky is the limit
the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
the sticks
the story goes
the straw that broke the camel's back
the sublime
the terrorists will have won
the thick plottens
the thing
the thing is
the thing of it
the trots (current term)
the true
the upper hand
the way to a man's heart is through his stomach
the wheels fell off
the whistle does not pull the train
the whistle doesn't pull the train
the whole caboodle
the whole nine yards
the whole shooting match
the whole way
the whole world and his dog
the world and his wife
the world is one's lobster
the world is one's oyster

Literary usage of The trots

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Old South Leaflets: Annual Series by Edwin D Mead (1893)
"Far to the north we just could discover the snowy heads of the Trots Tetons ... The bearing of the Trots Tetons was north 50° west, and the direction of the ..."

2. "Carrots:": Just a Little Boy by Molesworth (1886)
"Could it be the trots ? I sat still in a half stupid way, staring, but Gip—I was forgetting to tell you that of course Gip had come with us to Pau—Gip had ..."

3. The Trotting Horse of America: How to Train and Drive Him by Hiram Washington Woodruff (1869)
"I must now mention the trots at the Hunting-park Course against Dutchman, and the trots in which Lady Suffolk contended with Eip- ton ..."

4. The Trotting Horse of America: How to Train and Drive Him, with by Hiram Washington Woodruff, Charles James Foster, George Wilkes (1871)
"I must now mention the trots at the Hunting-park Course against Dutchman, and the trots in which Lady Suffolk contended with Eip- ton ; for, ..."

5. Impressions of London Social Life: With Other Papers Suggested by an English by Ehrman Syme Nadal (1875)
"But Mrs. Watson said that it was quite necessary, absolutely indispensable, that I should learn the trots temps. I had got on very well with the deux temps, ..."

6. Saratoga Illustrated: The Visitor's Guide of Saratoga Springs by Charles Newhall Taintor (1875)
"the trots take place at Glen Mitchell, and about the same time of the running ... In the height of the season, the trots come on alternate days with the ..."

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