trotter
IPA: trˈɑtɝ
noun
- One who trots.
- In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.
- The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat.
- (slang) A person's foot.
- (UK, historical) A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.
- A surname.
- (soccer) someone connected with Bolton Wanderers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- (basketball, slang) A player for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.
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Examples of "trotter" in Sentences
- He found a place as porter or "trotter" in a bank.
- "trotter" who was meditating with his head between his knees.
- Boning a trotter is the ultimate testament to how you value your truffles, good work.
- True Cariocas will insist on a smoked ear or trotter, but the flavor will still be true without those ingredients.
- I previewed one menu recently and as soon as I saw "trotter on toast" as a starter, I knew venison couldn't be far behind.
- One of these, a starter listed as snails and crubeens, which should be little fritters of gooey braised pig's trotter, was a salty, sticky, unpleasant mess of chewy snails and flavourless deep-fried cubes.
- An inveterate rule-breaker, Herrera pushes the envelope by taking traditional dishes one step further – trotter with a cap i pota head and innards of crayfish for example – and is all the more exciting for it.
- Benders and under limbs seem to have gone by the boards, along with other by-words of the period, such as trotter (as in the trotter of a chicken) and joint (for specificity at the dining table, one might ask for the first joint or second joint).
- Bruni recounts the plethora of pork belly on the app menu ( "pork belly with kimchi in an Asian preparation" or "house-smoked pork belly with lentils") then noted the pig-plenty on the entrees list ( "a pork chop, pork ribs or a pork foot, also known as a trotter"), and even found a little piggy available for dessert ( "the house-made bacon chocolate crunch bar").
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