trotting

Variant of trot

trot definition

trot (trät)

intransitive verb trotted trot′·ted, trotting trot′·ting

  1. to move, ride, drive, run, or go at a trot
  2. to move quickly; hurry; run

Etymology: ME trotten < OFr troter < OHG trottōn, to tread: for IE base see tread

transitive verb

to cause to go at a trot

noun

  1. a gait, as of a horse, in which a front leg and the opposite hind leg are lifted at the same time
  2. a jogging gait of a person, between a walk and a run
  3. the sound of a trotting horse
  4. trotline
  5. a horse race for trotters
  6. ☆ Slang pony ()
  7. Archaic an old woman: a contemptuous term
trot Idioms

the trots

Slang a case of diarrhea

trot out

Informal
  1. to bring out for others to see or admire
  2. to submit for approval

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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