trot
IPA: trˈɑt
noun
- (archaic, derogatory) An ugly old woman, a hag.
- (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).
- A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
- A brisk journey or progression.
- A toddler.
- (obsolete) A young animal.
- (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
- (Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
- (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
- (dated, slang, among students) Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
- (informal, as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
- A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
- (slang, derogatory) A Trotskyist.
- (derogatory, properly Trot) Clipping of Trotskyist. [A supporter of Trotskyism.]
verb
- (intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
- (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
- (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.
- (UK, slang, archaic, transitive) To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.
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Examples of "trot" in Sentences
- First, the trot is a basic horse gait.
- Preferred movement is the springy trot.
- The trot is the working gait for a horse.
- Impulsion can occur at the walk, trot and canter.
- The horse is trotted out after the veterinary exam.
- The trot is the best gait and is showy with a long stride.
- Slowly increase speed to a lope, and trot around the barrels.
- Some horses pace in addition to the amble, instead of trotting.
- A speciality is the crossfigure and it is done in trot and canter.
- Breeds swift at the gallop also tend to trot rather than pace or amble.
- A lope is easier to ride, but the trot is the natural gait of a horse, and he can keep up
- Quoth he, “The swindling old trot is no mother of mine; she hath cheated me and taken my clothes and a thousand dinars.”
- He has a fox trot, which is wonderfully easy, and which he apparently can keep up indefinitely, and like all Indian horses can "run like a deer."
- If the trot had been the rhythmic _one, two, three, four_, Pete could have ridden and rolled cigarettes without spilling a flake of tobacco; but the trot was a sort of _one, two -- almost three_, then, whump!
- His heels touch Vola's flanks; the black snorts but picks up her feet into a quick trot, which is the most Creslin wants over the rough ground above the dunes, where a half-squad holds the high sand against twice as many Nordlans.
- The road smoked in the twilight with children driving home cattle from the fields; and a pair of mounted stride-legged women, hat and cap and all, dashed past me at a hammering trot from the canton where they had been to church and market.
- The trot, sir '' (striking his Bucephalus with his spurs), --- ` ` the trot is the true pace for a hackney; and, were we near a town, I should like to try that daisy-cutter of yours upon a piece of level road (barring canter) for a quart of claret at the next inn. ''
- The upper part of his form, notwithstanding the season required no such defence, was shrouded in a large great-coat, belted over his under habiliments, and crested with a huge cowl of the same stale, which, when drawn over the head and hat, completely overshadowed both, and being buttoned beneath the chin, was called a trot-cozy.