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trot

/tɹɒt/

noun

Meaning

  • Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

  • Equipment with legs.

  • Type of equipment.

  • 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.

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

  • 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).

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

  • (among students) horseplay; tomfoolery

Synonyms

horsie,
nag,
prad,
steed,
knight,
pommel horse,
vaulting horse,
dobbin,
pony,
trot

noun

Meaning

  • Heroin (drug).

    "Alright, mate, got any horse?"

Synonyms

H,
smack

noun

Meaning

  • 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.

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

  • A toddler.

  • A young animal.

  • A moderately rapid dance.

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

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

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

  • (as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.

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

Synonyms

jog

verb

Meaning

  • 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."

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

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

Synonyms

jog,
pace