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trot out

trot out verb: to list or recite quickly.

Verb

trot out (third-person singular simple present trots out, present participle trotting out, simple past and past participle trotted out)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To list or recite quickly.
    • It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37
  2. 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, Banjo Paterson, Johnson's Antidote
    Synonyms:
    wheel out

Synonyms of trot out

Forms of trot out

third-person singular presenttrots out
present participletrotting out
past participletrotted out
pasttrotted out

Questions about trot out

What does trot out mean?
Trot out means to list or recite quickly.
What part of speech is trot out?
Trot out is a verb.
What is the past tense of trot out?
The past tense of trot out is trotted out.

Words near trot out in the dictionary

  1. Trostle
  2. Trostles
  3. Trosts
  4. trot
  5. trot off
  6. trot out
  7. trotcosies
  8. trotcosy
  9. trotcozy
  10. troth
  11. trothed

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