trots
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Definitions oftrots
- A supporter of Trotskyism.
- Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
- Equipment with legs.
- Type of equipment.
- A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
- An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).
- (among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
- (among students) horseplay; tomfoolery
- Heroin (drug).
Example: "Alright, mate, got any horse?"
- An ugly old woman, a hag.
- (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).
- A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
- A brisk journey or progression.
Example: "In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4."
- A toddler.
- A young animal.
- A moderately rapid dance.
- A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
- (with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
Example: "He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon."
- (as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
Example: "He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet."
- To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
Example: "I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop."
- (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
- To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
- Diarrhoea/diarrhea.
Example: "I've had the trots all morning and haven't been able to go out."
- (with "the") A trotting race meet; harness racing.
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