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trotting out

trotting out is the present participle and gerund of trot out.

Meaning of trot out

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

Questions about trotting out

What is trotting out the present participle and gerund of?
Trotting out is the present participle and gerund of trot out.

Words near trotting out in the dictionary

  1. Trottier
  2. Trottiers
  3. trottin'
  4. trotting
  5. trotting off
  6. trotting out
  7. trottings
  8. Trottis
  9. Trottiscliffe
  10. trottoir
  11. trottoire

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