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Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.

trot

NOUN:	1. A person's steady easy gait that is faster than a walk but slower than a run: jog, lope. See MOVE. 2. Archaic. An ugly, frightening old woman: beldam, crone, hag, witch. Slang : biddy. See BEAUTIFUL.
VERB:	1. To move swiftly: bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt², race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour², shoot, speed, sprint, tear¹, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. Informal : hotfoot, rip. Slang : barrel, highball. Chiefly British : nip¹. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See MOVE. 2. To move with a steady easy gait faster than a walk but slower than a run: jog, lope. See MOVE.


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