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trot Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 If a horse or similar animal with four legs trots, it runs at its slowest speed, using short steps in which a front leg and the back leg on the opposite side move together:
- She was trotting along on her pony.
- The dog trotted down the path to greet me.
1 When people trot somewhere, they go there in a quick or busy way:
- She came trotting down the street after me.
- She was rather nervous and trotted through her speech a bit too quickly.
2 the speed or movement of a horse or similar animal when it trots:
- He climbed onto his horse and headed off at a relaxed trot.
- The team warmed up for the match with a trot around the pitch.
3 diarrhoea (= a condition in which the contents of the bowels are emptied too often):
- to get/have the trots
- That takeaway gave me the trots.
4 (of a horse or other animal with four legs) to move in a way that is slightly faster than walking
- She trotted along behind them, determined to keep up.

Three-dimensional carpal kinematics of trotting horses.
He made a great number of accusations without being on very firm ground and trotted out a catalogue of fairly well-worn facts.
The bogies will be trotted out as the election period develops.
He trotted out the dusty old answer that the cost of living had not risen anything like as high as the increases in the benefits.
He trotted out a lot of the old dogma which comes from those who have had a sparse interest in the industry as a whole.
He is trotting out generalisations which mean nothing.
Different methods have been adopted and all sorts of excuses have been trotted out.
I do not wish to criticise his speech but there were in it quite a lot of those old cliches that come trotting out.