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trot
     1. n. (archaic, disparaging) An ugly old woman, a hag.“”, entry in 2008, Anatolij Simonovič Liberman, An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction, page 208.
     2. n. (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. n. A gait of a person faster than a walk.
     4. n. A toddler.
     5. n. (obsolete) A young animal.
     6. n. (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
     7. n. (mildly disparaging) (clipping of Trotskyist)
     8. n. (Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
     9. n. (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
           He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
     10. n. (dated, slang) (synonym of horse) (illegitimate study aid)
     11. v. To walk rapidly.
     12. v. (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
     13. v. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
     14. n. A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.

Example Sentences

Woman, I'm hot to trot
Go ahead trot out your damned dogmas. 



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