trots

noun

A supporter of Trotskyism.

1. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
2. Equipment with legs.
3. Type of equipment.
4. 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.
5. The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
6. 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).
7. (among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
8. (among students) horseplay; tomfoolery

1. Heroin (drug).

   Alright, mate, got any horse?

1. An ugly old woman, a hag.
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 or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
4. A brisk journey or progression.

   In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.

5. A toddler.
6. A young animal.
7. A moderately rapid dance.
8. A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
9. (with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.

   He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.

10. (as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.

    He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.

1. To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.

   I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.

2. (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
3. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

1. Diarrhoea/diarrhea.

   I've had the trots all morning and haven't been able to go out.

2. (with "the") A trotting race meet; harness racing.