Trotnoun

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  derogatoryslangA Trotskyite.

  • Loyal to a tee, he is still at a loss to understand the failure of the Frank Dobson candidacy in the London mayoral contest, and abandoned constituency meetings after a couple of events because they were "too dominated by Trots".
  • We believed that the Trots represented a mad, extreme form of Labour that was never going to do anything for anybody, yet we felt strongly that nothing would be achieved by jumping ship and defecting to the SDP.

trotnoun詞源 1/tɹɑt/

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

  • Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village.
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  A brisk journey or progression.

  • We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.
  • In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.
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  A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).

  • The mare started at a walk before breaking into a trot.
  • Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop.
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  A toddler.

  • 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123, […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.
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  dancedancinghobbiesA moderately rapid dance.

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  obsoleteA young animal.

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  derogatoryarchaicAn ugly old woman, a hag.

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  obsoleteA succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.

trotverb詞源 1/tɹɑt/

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  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.
  • The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.
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  To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.

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

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  archaicslangTo bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.

  • A particular friend of mine complained that I had "trotted" him at a sale, but he did not see what was happening on the part of the other bidder.

trotnoun詞源 2/tɹɑt/

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