trot

noun12

1. •
   A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.

   • Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village. — 1913
2. •
   A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).

   • The mare started at a walk before breaking into a trot.
3. •
   (informal) Diarrhoea.

   • He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.
4. •
   A brisk journey or progression.

   • We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.
   • In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.
5. •
   (Australia, New-Zealand) A run of luck or fortune.

   • He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
6. •
   A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
7. •
   A moderately rapid dance.
8. •
   A toddler.

   • […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories. — 1855
9. •
   (slang, old-fashioned) Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
10. •
    (Australia, no longer used) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
11. •
    (no longer used) A young animal.
12. •
    (offensive, no longer used) An ugly old woman, a hag.

verb4

1. •
   To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.

   • I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.
   • The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.
2. •
   To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
3. •
   To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
4. •
   (slang, no longer used) To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.

   • A particular friend of mine complained that I had "trotted" him at a sale, but he did not see what was happening on the part of the other bidder. — 1927

noun1

1. •
   (slang) a person thought of as a stubborn, extreme left-wing troublemaker because they follow the Russian leader who opposed Stalin and wanted communist revolution in every country