trot
UK /tɹɒt/ · US /tɹɑt/ noun, verb
Forms trots trotting trotted
- noun A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
- noun A brisk journey or progression. “We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.”
- noun (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). “The mare started at a walk before breaking into a trot.”
- noun A toddler.
- noun (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
- noun (obsolete) A young animal.
- noun (archaic, derogatory) An ugly old woman, a hag.
- noun (Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
- verb (intransitive) 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.”
- verb (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
- verb (transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
- verb (UK, slang, archaic, transitive) To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.
- noun A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
- noun (slang, derogatory) A Trotskyite.
Synonyms
jog old woman horse run pace ppongjjak Trotskyite lope Trotskyist pony crib clip
Etymology
From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of trade and tread.
Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre.
Clipping.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
- verb Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
- verb To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering. To trot out, to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition. [Slang.]
- noun The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time. "The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot." Stillman (The Horse in Motion).
Etymology [OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trott to tread. See Tread.]
Etymology [F. See Trot, v. i.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “trot”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details