trot out verb2 •To list or recite quickly.It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair. — 2021 •To bring something forward in order to display or use it.Then he rushed to the museum, found a scientific man – ‘Trot me out a deadly serpent, just the deadliest you can — 1895 formstrotted out · trotting out · trots out