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Definition of Trot

1. Verb. Run at a moderately swift pace.

2. Noun. A slow pace of running.

3. Verb. Ride at a trot. "The horses trot across the field"

4. Noun. Radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution.

5. Verb. Cause to trot. "The men trot the horses across the field"; "She trotted the horse home"

6. Noun. A literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly).

7. Noun. A gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together.

Definition of Trot

1. v. i. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

2. v. t. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

3. n. The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.

Definition of Trot

1. Noun. A gait of horses between walk and canter, a diagonal gait, i.e., in which diagonal pairs of legs move together. ¹

2. Noun. A gait of a person faster than a walk. ¹

3. Noun. A toddler. ¹

4. Noun. (informal) The trots: diarrhoea/diarrhea. ¹

5. Noun. (dance) A moderately rapid dance. ¹

6. Noun. A moderately common abbreviation, a mildly negative epithet for Trotskyist. ¹

7. Noun. (archaic) An ugly old woman. ¹

8. Noun. (Australia New Zealand) A run of luck or fortune. ¹

9. Verb. To walk rapidly. ¹

10. Verb. (context: of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trot

1. to go at a gait between a walk and a run [v TROTTED, TROTTING, TROTS]

Medical Definition of Trot

1. 1. The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time. "The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot." 2. A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying. 3. One who trots; a child; a woman. "An old trot with ne'er a tooth." (Shak) Origin: F. See Trot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trot

troposphere tropospheres tropospheric tropospherically tropotaxes tropotaxis troppo tropylium tropyliums tropæan

tropæolin tropæum trosh troshing trossers trot (current term) trot off trot out troth trothed

trothful trothing trothless trothplight trothplighted trothplighting trothplights troths trotline trotlines

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