jog trot

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noun

a slow, regular, jolting pace, as of a horse.

an uneventful, humdrum way of living, doing something, etc.: a sleepy little town where life proceeded at a jog trot.

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Origin of jog trot

First recorded in 1700–10

Words nearby jog trot

jogging suit, joggle, joggle post, Jogjakarta, jog on, jog trot, Johanan ben Zakkai, Johann, Johanna, johannes, Johannesburg

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How to use jog trot in a sentence

He would be Cory Booker, who has promised to lead a campaign jog to a local ice cream parlor.
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It begins with forgetting lines in lectures and losing track of where she is on a jog, and gets worse.
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The whole point of being a pageant queen is to trot around in your bikini to be ogled at while feigning sexual naiveté.
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And, of course, they trot out the Constitution to justify their actions, much as the slave holders did 150 years earlier.
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He had to urge his horse to a trot, and he went tagging alongside the funnel to see what it would do.
Benjamin Franklin, America’s First Storm Chaser|Lee Sandlin|April 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The truth is, it is not safe to trot down such mountains and hardly to ride down them at all.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
But I have some more foul way to trot through still, in your Epistles and Satyrs, &c.
A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope|Colley Cibber
Soon he begins to trot, and, when he thinks himself out of sight, bounds off like a greyhound.
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne
How I do wish sometimes to give Ritchie a jog, when there is some stumbling-block that he sticks fast at.
The Daisy Chain|Charlotte Yonge
To the left of us a horse snorted nervously; we heard him trot with high, springy strides to the end of his rope, and snort again.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for jog trot

jog trot

noun

an easy bouncy gait, esp of a horse, midway between a walk and a trot

a monotonous or regular way of living or doing something

verb jog-trot -trots, -trotting or -trotted

(intr) to move at a jog trot

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