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A supporter of Trotskyism.
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Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
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Equipment with legs.
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Type of equipment.
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A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
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The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
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An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).
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(among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
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(among students) horseplay; tomfoolery
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Heroin (drug).
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Alright, mate, got any horse?
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An ugly old woman, a hag.
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(chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
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A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
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A brisk journey or progression.
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In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.
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A toddler.
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A young animal.
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A moderately rapid dance.
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A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
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(with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
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He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
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(as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
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He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.
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To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
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I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.
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(of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
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To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
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Diarrhoea/diarrhea.
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I've had the trots all morning and haven't been able to go out.
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(with "the") A trotting race meet; harness racing.
Examples of trots in a Sentence
After all, the man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages; he is not an evangelist, nor does he come round eating locusts and wild honey.
Since the 2001 show, the band occasionally trots the song out, most notably at the V Festival in 2006.
Occasionally he trots, when his speed is not inconsiderable.