trot

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trot/trɒt/

▶verb (trots, trotting, trotted)

• 1 (of a horse or other quadruped) proceed at a pace faster than a walk, lifting each diagonal pair of legs alternately.

• 2 (of a person) run at a moderate pace with short steps.

  ■ informal go or walk briskly.

• 3 (trot something out) informal produce the same account that has been produced many times before.

▶noun

• 1 a trotting pace.

  ■ an act or period of trotting.

• 2 (the trots) informal diarrhoea.

• 3 Austral./NZ informal a period of luck of a specified kind.

– phrases
on the trot informal

• 1 Brit. in succession.

• 2 continually busy.

– origin ME: from OFr. trot (n.), troter (v.), from med. L. trottare, of Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Trot/trɒt/

▶noun informal, chiefly derogatory a Trotskyist or supporter of extreme left-wing views.