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TROT OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trot out mean?
• TROT OUT (verb)
The verb TROT OUT has 1 sense:
1. bring out and show for inspection and admiration
Familiarity information: TROT OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bring out and show for inspection and admiration
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Context example:
always able to trot out some new excuse
Hypernyms (to "trot out" is one way to...):
bring out; reveal; unveil (make visible)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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