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What does trot mean?

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Noun
  1. (pejorative) An ugly old woman, a hag. [From 1362.]
  2. (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).
  3. A gait of a person faster than a walk.
  4. A toddler. [From 1854.]
  5. (obsolete) A young animal. [From 1895.]
  6. (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
  7. (mildly disparaging) Clipping of Trotskyist.
  8. (Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
  9. (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
  10. (dated, slang, among students) Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
Verb
  1. To walk rapidly.
  2. (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
  3. (transitive) 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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