trots
/tɹˈɑts/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.42 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A trotting race meet; harness racing.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; American usage; Informal
Example Sentences
- "I've had the trots all morning and haven't been able to go out."
- "I, yes, I, had exclusive rights to this platinum goose with a bad case of the trots! Money entered my cavernously empty bank accounts like the North Sea through a Dutch dike."
- "A lot of people used to go out to the trots at Wayville. You′d see them all dressed up in their beads and bonnets and looking all flash, going off to the trots."
- "‘Russ drank two bottles of Coruba rum at the races then demanded to be driven to the Auckland night trots. We hadn′t been that keen on going to the trots, but when we dropped him there we figured we might as well stay for a couple of races.[…]’"
- "I like both kinds of racing, thoroughbred and standardbred. Despite their lower social status, I like betting the trots just as much as I do the flats."
- "“[…]It is a fact that thousands come, pay their fee, and go straight to the amphitheater to see the trots, without whose fees premiums could not be paid to other classes.”"
Usage
- Slang
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- American usage
- Informal