Definitions

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  • noun A slow, regular, jolting gait.
  • verb intransitive To move with a slow, regular, jolting gait.

Etymologies

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jog +‎ trot

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Examples

  • Who could have thought this place would turn out so poorly? — become a jogtrot little suburban affair that just held together, and no more.

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • Starting uphill at a jogtrot, he was amazed that his ankle would support the effort.

    The Cat Who Moved A Mountain Braun, Lilian Jackson 1992

  • Cai went off at a jogtrot to the paddock, and Annest, drawing breath more easily now that the worst was told, drank off the wine he had left in his cup, and heaved a huge, resolute sigh.

    A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977

  • "So much the better -- so much the better," said the frank but inhospitable retainer; and presently the jogtrot old animal between the shafts was pulled up in front of a certain square old-fashioned building of gray stone which was prettily surrounded with trees.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

  • The minds of many reverted to personal experiences with ox team, or jogtrot of horses or mule train.

    The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

  • From there travel was rapid, the pack-horses being driven at a jogtrot.

    The Man of the Forest 1919

  • From there travel was rapid, the pack-horses being driven at a jogtrot.

    The Man of the Forest Zane Grey 1905

  • To live again -- to plunge back into youth and beauty -- to feel Spring once more -- to lose the sense of all being over, save just the sober jogtrot of domestic bliss; to know, actually to know, ecstasy again, in the love of a girl; to rediscover all that youth yearns for, and feels, and hopes, and dreads, and loves.

    The Dark Flower John Galsworthy 1900

  • To live again -- to plunge back into youth and beauty -- to feel Spring once more -- to lose the sense of all being over, save just the sober jogtrot of domestic bliss; to know, actually to know, ecstasy again, in the love of

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • My husband used to say, change is such a capital thing in life's jogtrot; that men find it refreshing if we now and then, reverse the order of our pillion-riding for them.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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