1. the gait of a horse or other four-footed animal, between a walk and a canter in speed, in which diagonal pairs of legs move forward together.
2. A ride on a horse at this pace.
3. A gait of a person, faster than a walk; a jog.
4. sports A race for trotters.
5. see pony.
6. informal diarrhea. used with the.
7. A toddler.
8. archaic an old woman; a crone.
9. to go or move at a trot.
10. to proceed rapidly; hurry.
11. to cause to move at a trot.
12. trot out informal to bring out and show for inspection or admiration: "his novel trots out an irish president named finn” ( charles E. Claffey).

1. A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
2. A gait of a person faster than a walk.
3. A moderately rapid dance.
4. short for trotskyist.
5. A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
6. A run of luck or fortune.
7. to walk rapidly.
8. to move at a gait between a walk and a canter.

1. 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.
2. fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
3. one who trots; a child; a woman.
4. to proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. see trot, n.
5. fig.: to run; to jog; to hurry.
6. to cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

1. to go at a quick, steady pace; run; go.
2. specifically, to go at the quick, steady pace known as a trot. see trot, n., 2, and trotter.
3. to cause to trot; ride at a trot.
4. to ride over or about at a trot.
5. to use a “pony” or some similar means in studying; “pony”: as, to trot a lesson. [college slang, U. S.]
6. quick, steady movement; “go”: as, to keep one on the trot all day.
7. A gait faster than the walk and slower than the run.
8. A toddling child; in general, a child: a term of endearment.
9. A “pony”; a “crib.”
10. A trot-line.
11. A small line that sets off from the main trot-line, to the extreme end of which the hook is fastened. see trotline.
12. an old woman: a term of disparagement.

1. radicals who support trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
2. ride at a trot
3. cause to trot
4. a slow pace of running
5. a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
6. run at a moderately swift pace
7. a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together