trots
trots is the plural of trot.
trots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of trot.
Noun (1)
trots pl (plural only)
- Diarrhoea/diarrhea.
- I've had the trots all morning and haven't been able to go out.
- I, yes, I, had exclusive rights to this platinum goose with a bad case of the trots! Money entered my cavernously empty bank accounts like the North Sea through a Dutch dike.2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 152
- Synonyms:
- screaming trots
- A trotting race meet; harness racing.
- A lot of people used to go out to the trots at Wayville. You′d see them all dressed up in their beads and bonnets and looking all flash, going off to the trots.2002, Veronica Brodie, Mary-Anne Gale, My Side of the Bridge: The Life Story of Veronica Brodie as Told to Mary-Anne Gale, South Australia: Wakefield Press, page 49
- ‘Russ drank two bottles of Coruba rum at the races then demanded to be driven to the Auckland night trots. We hadn′t been that keen on going to the trots, but when we dropped him there we figured we might as well stay for a couple of races.[…]’2006, Mike Dillon, From The Horses Mouth: The Keith Haub Story, HarperCollins New Zealand, published 2010, unnumbered page
Meaning of trot
Noun
trot (plural trots)
- 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, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 133
- Synonyms:
- jog
- A brisk journey or progression.
- We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.
- 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.
- 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, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123
- A moderately rapid dance.
- A young animal.
Noun (2) capitalized: Trots
Trots
- plural of Trot
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Questions about trots
- What does trots mean?
- Trots means diarrhoea/diarrhea.
- What is trots the plural of?
- Trots is the plural of trot.
- What part of speech is trots?
- Trots is a noun.
Words near trots in the dictionary
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