trot
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How trot fits the hive
Base Score
1
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
3
O R T
Two-Letter Start
TR
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Ending
OT
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- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- TR start
- OT ending
- repeated letters
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- trot is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include o, r, t plus any remaining hive letters.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
noun
Equipment with legs.
noun
Type of equipment.
noun
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.
noun
The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
noun
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).
noun
(among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
noun
(among students) horseplay; tomfoolery
noun
Heroin (drug).
"Alright, mate, got any horse?"
noun
An ugly old woman, a hag.
noun
(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).
noun
A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
noun
A brisk journey or progression.
"In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4."
noun
A toddler.
noun
A young animal.
noun
A moderately rapid dance.
noun
A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
noun
(with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
"He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon."
noun
(as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
"He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet."
verb
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."
verb
(of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
verb
To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
noun
A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
noun
A supporter of Trotskyism.
Related Words
Same Letters
- rotor
- root
- toro
- torr
- tort
Synonyms
- horsie
- nag
- prad
- steed
- knight
- pommelhorse
- vaultinghorse
- dobbin
- pony
- trot
- h
- smack