Definitions for trots

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Spelling: [trot]

IPA: /trɒt/

Trots is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in trots (orstt).

Definitions for trots

noun

1. the gait of a horse, dog, or other quadruped, when trotting.
2. the sound made by an animal when trotting.
3. the jogging gait of a human being, between a walk and a run.
4. Harness Racing. a race for trotters.
5. brisk, continuous movement or activity:
6. Archaic: Disparaging. an old woman.
7. Slang. a literal translation used illicitly in doing schoolwork; crib; pony.
8. the trots, Informal. diarrhea.
9. Informal. a toddling child.
10. a trotline.
11. a short line with hooks, attached to the trotline.

Verb phrases

1. trot out, Informal. to bring forward for inspection. to bring to the attention of; introduce; submit:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to trot.
2. to ride (a horse) at a trot.
3. to lead at a trot.
4. to travel over by trotting:
5. to execute by trotting.

verb (used without object)

1. (of a horse) to go at a gait between a walk and a run, in which the legs move in diagonal pairs, but not quite simultaneously, so that when the movement is slow one foot at least is always on the ground, and when fast all four feet are momentarily off the ground at once.
2. to go at a quick, steady pace; move briskly; bustle; hurry.

Origin of trots

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English trotten Middle French troter Germanic; akin to Old High German trottōn to tread, whence Middle High German trotten to run; (noun) Middle English Middle French,

Examples for trots

The whole point of being a pageant queen is to trot around in your bikini to be ogled at while feigning sexual naiveté.

It was almost nowhere possible to trot, and we had to plod on, step by step.

Oscar forecasters like to trot out old statistics when deciding who will win which awards.

"You must a-been born with all your teeth," said the private, as we quickened to a trot.

He had to urge his horse to a trot, and he went tagging alongside the funnel to see what it would do.

They urged their horses into a trot, and soon found that Dick was right.

And, of course, they trot out the Constitution to justify their actions, much as the slave holders did 150 years earlier.

Now we can trot our beasts and not be smothered in other folk's dust.

Then I just have to “retrieve payload” from Coinapult, trot on back over to Blockchain and BAM!

When we made our way out on the bank, the horses were all put to the trot.