trote — meaning in English
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English meaning
- hazing noun The practice of subjecting someone, often a new member of a group, to humiliating, harsh, or abusive rituals.
- prank noun A playful trick or joke played on someone, usually harmless.
- prank call noun A telephone call made to a stranger or a friend purely to trick, tease or annoy them, usually with a false story or a scripted joke.
- trot noun A pace faster than a walk but slower than a run, especially for a horse.
Senses
trote is used for these senses in English:
- hazing (US, Philippines) An initiation or behavior that involves humiliation, harassment or abuse, particularly in universities and in the military.
- prank A practical joke or mischievous trick.
- prank call A practical joke played by calling the unsuspecting victim on the telephone, usually pretending to be somebody else.
- trot (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).
prank — full definition
- noun A playful trick or joke played on someone, usually harmless.
- verb To play a trick on someone as a joke.
- verb To dress or adorn in a showy, ostentatious way.