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trot

noun verb

Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

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Word length
4
Starts with
T
Ends with
T
Contains
RO
Scrabble score
4

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Pronunciation

/tɹɒt/ /tɹɑt/

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noun

  1. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

  2. Equipment with legs.

  3. Type of equipment.

  4. A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

  5. The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

  6. An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).

  7. (among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

  8. (among students) horseplay; tomfoolery

noun

  1. Heroin (drug).

    “Alright, mate, got any horse?”

noun

  1. An ugly old woman, a hag.

  2. (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).

  3. A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.

  4. A brisk journey or progression.

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

  5. A toddler.

  6. A young animal.

  7. A moderately rapid dance.

  8. A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.

  9. (with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.

    “He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.”

  10. (as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.

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

verb

  1. To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.

    “I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.”

  2. (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.

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

noun

  1. A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.

noun

  1. A supporter of Trotskyism.

In context

Example Sentences

Alright, mate, got any horse?
In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.
He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.
I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.

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